Edgar F. Codd
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Person
- Born
- 1923-08-23
- Died
- 2003-04-18
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
· 2007 · cited 53,027x
- MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput
· 2004 · cited 37,700x
- Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses
· 2009 · cited 30,147x
- Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST
· 2010 · cited 18,797x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,320x
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Key facts
- Born
- Edgar Frank Codd , ( 1923-08-19 ) 19 August 1923 , Fortuneswell , Dorset , England
- Died
- 18 April 2003 (2003-04-18) (aged 79), Williams Island , Aventura, Florida , USA
- Education
- Exeter College, Oxford ( BA ), University of Michigan ( MA , PhD )
- Known for
- Alpha language , Database normalization , OLAP , Relational model , Codd's cellular automaton , Codd's theorem , Codd's 12 rules , Boyce–Codd normal form
- Awards
- Turing Award (1981)
- Fields
- Computer Science
- Institutions
- University of Oxford , University of Michigan , IBM
- Thesis
- Propagation, Computation, and Construction in Two-dimensional cellular spaces (1965)
- Doctoral advisor
- John Henry Holland
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Key dates
- Born
- 23 August 1923
- Died
- 18 April 2003
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edgar
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Isle of Portland
- Place of death
- Aventura
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- IBM
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- ACM Fellow
Article
Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (19 August 1923 – 18 April 2003) 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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