Title
Zemanek, Heinz SIAM oral history
Catalog Number
102746814
Type
Document
Description
Professor Zemanek begins by discussing fortunate circumstances that allowed him to finish his studies in telecommunications engineering in Vienna at the beginning of World War II before joining the army as a telecommunications soldier in Greece. He became a teacher in the telecommunications school of the German Army in Salonika. He was able to get out of the Army, begin his diploma work, and join a radar development team in the Air Force. He was able to travel and eventually completed his diploma work under the supervision of Richard Feldtkeller at the Technical University of Stuttgart. However, he submitted his work to the University of Vienna. He discusses the relative lack of progress in design of filters in Germany due to the slowness in adopting mathematical techniques. After the war, he began work on computers.
Zemanek discusses the development of computers and computer architectures, and the philosophy of computing in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. He describes his role in development of the first fully transistorized computer in continental Europe the Mailüfterl. He comments on the history and philosophy of computing, information theory and artificial intelligence.
Date
2005-06-11
Contributor
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Davis, Philip, Interviewer
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Zemanek, Heinz, Interviewee
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Publisher
SIAM and U.S. Department of Energy
Place of Publication
Vienna, Austria
Extent
46 p.
Format
PDF
Copyright Holder
Computer History Museum
Category
Transcription
Subject
Telecommunications; Filter design; Computer architecture; Mailüfterl (Computer); Informatoin theory; Artificial intelligence (AI); Quanta Computer
Collection Title
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) oral history collection
Credit
Gift of SIAM and the US Department of Energy
