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Edgar F. Codd
Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd was a British 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 won the 1981 ACM Turing Award.
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Born 19 August 1923 · Died 18 April 2003 · Q92596
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2003· 2 entries
San Diego Union-Tribune: Edgar F. Codd Memoriam
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Died 2003-04-18.
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (1996).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Turing Award (1981).
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And in 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
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1979· 1 entry
It was copied by Larry Ellison, based on pre-launch papers presented at conferences of Relational Software Inc, in his Oracle Database, which actually reached the market before SQL/DS – because of the then-already propri
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1970· 1 entry
After an internal IBM paper one year earlier
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1965· 1 entry
From the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, advised by John Henry Holland
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1957· 1 entry
Returned to the US working for IBM and from 1961 to 1965 pursuing his doctorate in computer science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
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1953· 1 entry
Dismayed by Senator Joseph McCarthy, Codd moved to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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1948· 1 entry
Moved to New York to work for IBM as a mathematical programmer
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-08-19.
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