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Edgar F. Codd
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English computer scientist (1923–2003)
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Edgar Frank Codd (1923–2003) was a British and American computer scientist, mathematician, and university teacher. Born on the Isle of Portland, he held citizenship in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Codd was educated at Exeter College and the University of Michigan, where his doctoral advisor was John Henry Holland. He worked as an employee of IBM.
Throughout his career in computer science, Codd received several honors, including the Turing Award, IBM Fellow, Computer Pioneer Award, and ACM Fellow. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Association for Computing Machinery. Codd died of natural causes due to a myocardial infarction in Aventura.
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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 54,618x
- MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput
· 2004 · cited 38,137x
- Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses
· 2009 · cited 31,352x
- Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST
· 2010 · cited 18,949x
- 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 15,936x
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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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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Biography
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