Shimon Peter Vingron was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1936 and fled to England before the War with his family returning to Vienna in 1947. He studied mechanical engineering, physics and automation obtaining the degrees Ing., Dipl.-Ing., Dr. techn. and worked in industry in Germany and Austria. He lectured at the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and the Technische Universität Vienna,(Austria) and taught at the Engineering College Mödling, Austria. While at the Austrian Academy of Sciences he did research on sequential circuit theory. He has 2 patents, is the co-author of 2 books, and the author of 3.