Honours and awards
Membership
- German Academy of Arts of West Berlin since 1971
- Austrian Academy of Sciences (corresponding member since 1979, full member since 1984)
- Vienna Catholic Academy since 1984
- Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (corresponding member since 1985)
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences (corresponding member since 1992)
- European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1993
- Russian Academy of Sciences (foreign member since 1994)
Honorary doctorates, fellowships, honorary memberships
- IEEE Fellow since 1970
- British Computer Society Fellow since 1970
- Honorary Life Member of the Computer Society of South Africa since 1972
- Honorary Life Member of the Operations Research Society of Argentina since 1972
- Honorary Member of the Information Processing Society of Japan since 1975
- Honorary member of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies since 1975
- IBM Fellow 1976
- Honorary president of the Austrian Computer Society OCG since 1976
- Honorary member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) since 1977
- Honorary doctorate at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, 1982
- Tenured professor at the TU Vienna, 1984
- Dr.-Ing. hon. of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1986
- Honorary member of the Wiener Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Technik, 1990
- Honorary professor at the Danube University Krems, 1997
- Honorary member of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Informatikgeschichte, 1999
Prizes and awards
- September 1960
Prize of the Nachrichtentechnische Gesellschaft for the book Informationstheorie
- September 1969
Golden Stefan Medal of honour des Austrian Electrotechnical Association (OVE)
- December 1972
Wilhelm Exner Medal of the Österr. Gewerbevereins (Austrian Association for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises)
- September 1974
Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
- August 1977
IFIP Silvercore
- June 1978
Prechtl Medal of the TU Vienna
- March 1980
Marin Drinov Medal of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- March 1980
Silver badge of honour of the VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies
- September 1980
IBM Programming Book Series Award
- March 1984
Prize of the ADV (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung)
- August 1984
Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the European Society for the Education of Engineers
- June 1986
Gold Decoration for Services to the City of Vienna
- June 1986
IEEE Computer Pioneer Medal
- September 1986
10 Congresses Certificate of IFIP
- May 1988
Oscar-von-Miller-Plakette in bronze of the Deutsches Museum in Munich
- September 1989
John von Neumann Medal of the Hungarian John von Neumann Computer Society
- January 1991
Plaque for Heinz Zemanek at his secondary school in Vienna, Realgymnasium 6, Marchettigasse
- March 1995
Golden badge of honour of the VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies
- November 1997
Bolzano Medal, Prague
- July 1998
Internat. EMAC AWARD, Adelaide, Australia
- September 1998
I.L. Auerbach Award of the IFIP
- October 1998
Eduard-Rhein Ring of Honour
- December 2003
Kardinal-Innitzer-Preis
- March 2005
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
- March 2010
Rudolf Klompfner Medal, TU Vienna