Awards & Winners

Edgar F. Codd

Date of Birth 19-August-1923
Place of Birth Isle of Portland
(Weymouth and Portland)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Edgar Frank Codd, Ted Codd
Profession Computer Scientist
Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd was an English computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases. He made other valuable contributions to computer science, but the relational model, a very influential general theory of data management, remains his most mentioned achievement.

Awards by Edgar F. Codd

Check all the awards nominated and won by Edgar F. Codd.

1981


Turing Award
(For his fundamental and continuing contributions to the theory and practice of database management systems, esp. relational databases)