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.