Charles Katz

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Charles Katz
Born1927
Philadelphia
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Known forA-0 System, ALGOL 58, ALGOL 60
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsRemington Rand

Charles Katz (born in 1927) is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to early compiler development in the 1950s.

He received a BS in mathematics at Temple University in 1950 and an MS at the University of Pennsylvania in 1953, then went to work at Remington-Rand with Grace Hopper on the development of compilers for her Univac programming languages beginning with A-2, followed by MATH-MATIC and FLOW-MATIC. In 1958 he served as one of the US members of the IAL committee which specified the ALGOL language.

External sources

Short biography at the University of Calgary


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