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American computer programmer
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1 January 1927(Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
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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.