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Edgar F. Codd
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English computer scientist (1923–2003)
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Edgar Frank Codd was a British and American computer scientist, mathematician, and university teacher. He was born on August 19, 1923, on the Isle of Portland, and died on April 18, 2003, in Aventura from a myocardial infarction. 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 and held citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Codd received the Turing Award, the IBM Fellow title, the Computer Pioneer Award, and ACM Fellow status. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Association for Computing Machinery. His professional field was computer science, and he spoke English. He is recognized in the Turing Award collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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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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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
- Doctoral advisor
- John Henry Holland
- Field of work
- computer science
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- date of birth
- 1923-08-23
- date of death
- 2003-04-18
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Erdős number
- 7
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- name in native language
- Edgar Frank Codd
- Commons category
- Edgar F. Codd
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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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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