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Dr. Allen Katz is a professor of Electrical/Computer Engineering at The College of New Jersey. He is co-founder of the Trenton Computer Festival and was festival director for 20 years. He is the director of TCF 2007.

He has more than 25 years of experience in the microwave, satellite and computer industries. He holds 15 patents and has written more than 50 technical publications. He is founder and President of Linearizer Technology, Inc.

He has been a licensed Radio Amateur since 1956. He received the ARRL Technical Merit Award in 1976, the John Chambers Award in 1982, an IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984, the Martin Marietta Astro Inventor of the year award in 1993, and in 2002 the William Randolph Lovelace II Award for outstanding contributions to space science and technology. He is a fellow of the IEEE.

Sol was a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Programming at Union County College for 25 years, retiring in 1993. He has a BA from the City University of New York and an MS from Rutgers University. He also taught in the Rutgers University Graduate School of Computer Science and was a visiting lecturer at other Colleges and Universities. Sol is the author of 16 books, most of them on Personal Computer hardware and software design. Many have been translated into several foreign languages. He has authored over 300 magazine articles that have appeared in more than 30 different magazines and journals. He was a monthly columnist in Byte magazine (for many years the leading Personal Computer magazine) for six years, beginning in 1976 and was the Editor of Microsystems Journal (a magazine for computer hardware and software designers) from 1979 to 1988.

For several years, Sol was a member of the IEEE Computer Standards Committee developing many of the hardware interface standards for PCs. He also served as a consultant to several companies on PC hardware and software design.

Sol founded the Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey in early 1975. The ACGNJ is the oldest Personal Computer Club in the world serving both PC & Macintosh users. Sol served as ACGNJ President for six years, in other positions for another four years, before retiring in 1986. Sol also, in 1976, co-founded, with Allen Katz, the Trenton Computer Festival, the first Personal Computer show.