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Phillip Walter Katz | |
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| Born | November 3, 1962 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | April 14, 2000 (aged 37) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Occupation | Computer programmer |
| Known for | Co-creator of Zip file format PKZIP |
Phillip Walter Katz (November 3, 1962 – April 14, 2000) was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the ZIP file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS.
A copyright lawsuit between System Enhancement Associates (SEA) and Katz's company, PKWARE, was widely publicized in the BBS community in the late 1980s. Katz's software business was very successful, but he struggled with social isolation and chronic alcoholism in the last years of his life.