Heinz Zemanek's almost forgotten contribution to the early Philosophy of Informatics

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University of Wollongong (Australia)

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This paper recapitulates some of the most important thoughts and aspects of the early and almost forgotten computer- and informatics-philosophy by the Austrian computer pioneer Heinz Zemanek (1920-2014). From a practical perspective, this remembrance has the two important purposes of preventing our contemporary discipline of computer-philosophy from the unneccessary 're-invention of the wheel' in many of its ongoing efforts, and of providing opportunities for Zemanek-inspired conflict resolutions in some cases where contemporary informatics-philosophical disputes appear to be stuck.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophy of informatics, History of the philosophy of informatics, Heinz Zemanek

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Stefan Gruner: Heinz Zemanek's almost forgotten contribution to the early Philosophy of Informatics. Paper #1 of ACIS`16: Proceedings 27th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Wollongong, December 2016