Edgar F. Codd
Edgar "Ted" Codd | |
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| Born | Edgar Frank Codd 19 August 1923 Fortuneswell, Dorset, England |
| Died | 18 April 2003 (aged 79) |
| 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) |
| Scientific career | |
| 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 |
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.