Edgar F. Codd

Edgar F. "Ted" Codd (August 23, 1923 ? April 18, 2003) was a British computer scientist who made seminal contributions to the theory of relational databases. While working for IBM, he created the relational model for database management. He made other valuable contributions to Informatics, but the relational model, a very influential general theory of data management, remains his most memorable achievement.

References

• Codd, E. F. (1970). A relational model of data for large shared data banks. Communications of the ACM 13 (6), 377-387. Retrieved from http://www.acm.org/classics/nov95/toc.html Sept. 4, 2004.
• http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/far/ch6.html