Edgar Frank Codd
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| Edgar Frank Codd | |
| Born | August 19, 1923 |
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| Died | April 18, 2003 |
| Residence | deceased |
| Nationality | English |
| Institutions | Unknown |
| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford University of Michigan |
Edgar Frank Codd was an English computer scientist who is best known for inventing the relational database model in 1970. Codd's 1965 PhD thesis at the University of Michigan was about self-replication in cellular automata, extending the work of von Neumann and showing that a set of eight states was sufficient for universal computation and construction. In 2010, Tim Hutton implemented Codd's design for a universal computer in Codd's 8-state cellular automaton.[1]
References
- ↑ Tim Hutton. "Rule Table Repository".
External links
- Edgar F. Codd at Wikipedia