Charles Katz

Charles Abraham Katz was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his contributions to early compiler development in the 1950s.
Katz received two degrees in mathematics, a Bachelor of Science at Temple University in 1950, and a Master of Science 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.
In 1958, he served as one of the original four American members of the International [Federation for Information Processing] IFIP [Working Group 2.1] on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, supports, and maintains the languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
Katz died in Rockville, Maryland on May 9, 1974, at the age of 46.