Edgar F. Codd

[danjacoby]

Edgar F. Codd died last Friday. He was 79.

Codd developed the theories on which relational databases are built. He tried for years to convince the folks at IBM that he had something worthwhile, but by the time Big Blue understood, someone else had bought into his ideas -- one Larry Ellison.

In 1981, Codd received the Turing award, which is the highest award for computer science.

[Anatoli]

Thanks for the info.

Right now Edgar is probably busy with Heaven -- Hell relation formula. He will be great help to Heaven organization.