Edgar F. Codd

Edgar "Ted" Codd
Born
Edgar Frank Codd

(1923-08-19)19 August 1923[3][4]
Died18 April 2003(2003-04-18) (aged 79)
Williams Island, Aventura, Florida, USA
Alma materExeter College, Oxford
University of Michigan
Known forAlpha language
Database normalization
OLAP
Relational model
Codd's cellular automaton
Codd's theorem
Codd's 12 rules
Boyce–Codd normal form
AwardsTuring Award (1981)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
University of Michigan
IBM
ThesisPropagation, Computation, and Construction in Two-dimensional cellular spaces (1965)
Doctoral advisorJohn Henry Holland[2]

Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (19 August 1923 – 18 April 2003) was an English computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases and relational database management systems. He made other valuable contributions to computer science, but the relational model, a very influential general theory of data management, remains his most mentioned, analyzed and celebrated achievement.[5][6]

  1. ^ Codd, Edgar Frank (1982). "Relational database: A practical foundation for productivity". Communications of the ACM. 25 (2): 109–117. doi:10.1145/358396.358400.
  2. ^ Edgar F. Codd at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference ACM Turing was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "12 simple rules: How Ted Codd transformed the humble database". The Register. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
  5. ^ Edgar Frank Codd at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ^ Edgar F. Codd author profile page at the ACM Digital Library

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