sg@cs.up.ac.za2018-08-082018-08-082016-12Stefan 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 2016http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66137This 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.11 pagesenAs stated on the last page of the paper, the author (Stefan Gruner) holds the rights. This paper is an open-access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 Australia License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and ACIS are credited.Ludwig WittgensteinPhilosophy of informaticsHistory of the philosophy of informaticsHeinz ZemanekText