He studied at Tulane University, where he was active in the student chapter of the American Chemical Society and Hillel, graduating in 1950.
In 1957 Gingold was a contestant on the NBC game show Twenty-One.
[5] It was in the latter capacity that, on September 30, 1964, he gave a presentation to the Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee of the National Academy of Sciences and the United States National Research Council, explaining the lack of correlation between cost and quality in commercial translation.
He was accredited by the ATA as a translator into English from French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Dutch.
Gingold served as a Vice-President of the International Federation of Translators,[4] and in 1970 he became director of the Interlingua Institute.