Edgar F. Codd

Who is this?

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.

Career

1. 1923
   Born
2. 1981
   Won Turing Award
3. 1994
   Member of Association for Computing Machinery
4. 1994
   Won ACM Fellow
5. 1996
   Won Computer Pioneer Award
6. 2003
   Passed away
7. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
8. Won IBM Fellow
9. Notable work: Codd's cellular automaton
10. Notable work: A relational model of data for large shared data banks

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Isle of Portland
• •Citizenship: United Kingdom, United States
• •Known as: computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher