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1981 – Edgar F. Codd
Citation
For his fundamental and continuing contributions to the theory and
practice of database management systems. He originated the relational approach to database
management in a series of research papers published commencing in 1970. His paper "A Relational
Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" was a seminal paper, in a continuing and carefully
developed series of papers. Dr. Codd built upon this space and in doing so has provided the
impetus for widespread research into numerous related areas, including database languages,
query subsystems, database semantics, locking and recovery, and inferential subsystems.
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