Charles Katz

American computer programmer (1927–1974)

Charles Katz
Born	(1927-07-07)July 7, 1927 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	May 9, 1974(1974-05-09) (aged 46) Rockville, Maryland, U.S.
Citizenship	United States
Education	B.S., Temple University (1950) M.S., University of Pennsylvania (1953)
Known for	A-0 System ALGOL 58 ALGOL 60
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science Mathematics
Institutions	Remington Rand General Electric Burroughs Corporation Xerox

Charles Abraham Katz (July 7, 1927 – May 9, 1974) was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to early compiler development in the 1950s.^[1]

Katz received two degrees in mathematics, a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Temple University in 1950, and a Master of Science (M.S.) at the University of Pennsylvania in 1953. He then went to work at Remington Rand, in the UNIVAC division, with Grace Hopper to develop compilers for her A-0 system UNIVAC programming languages starting with A-2, followed by MATH-MATIC and FLOW-MATIC. He then went on to General Electric, Burroughs Corporation, and Xerox.^[1]

In 1958, he served as one of the original four American members of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi,^[1]^[2] which specified, supports, and maintains the languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.^[3]

Katz died in Rockville, Maryland on May 9, 1974, at the age of 46.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Charles Katz" (PDF). Department of Computer Science. University of Calgary. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
^ Jeuring, Johan; Meertens, Lambert; Guttmann, Walter (2016-08-17). "Profile of IFIP Working Group 2.1". Foswiki. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
^ Swierstra, Doaitse; Gibbons, Jeremy; Meertens, Lambert (2011-03-02). "ScopeEtc: IFIP21: Foswiki". Foswiki. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
^ "Charles Abraham Katz". Forever Missed. Retrieved 22 October 2023.

ALGOL programming

Implementations

Technical standards	ALGOL 58 ALGOL 60 ALGOL 68
Dialects	ABC ALGOL ALCOR ALGO ALGOL 68C ALGOL 68-R ALGOL 68RS (ELLA) ALGOL 68S ALGOL N ALGOL W ALGOL X Atlas Autocode (Edinburgh IMP) Burroughs ALGOL CORAL 66 Dartmouth ALGOL 30 DASK ALGOL DG/L Elliott ALGOL Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language (ESPOL) → New Executive Programming Language (NEWP) FLACC IMP JOVIAL Kidsgrove Algol MAD Mary NELIAC RTL/2 S-algol, PS-algol, Napier88 Simula Small Machine ALGOL Like Language (SMALL) SMIL ALGOL
Formalisms	Jensen's device Van Wijngaarden grammar

Community

Organizations

Professional associations	ALCOR Group Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) BSI Group Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC) International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM)
Business	Burroughs Corporation Elliott Brothers Regnecentralen
Education	Case Institute of Technology University of Edinburgh University of St Andrews Manchester University Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Government	Royal Radar Establishment (RRE)

People

ALGOL 58

John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein
MAD	Bruce Arden Bernard Galler Robert M. Graham