Ask HN: Why Edgar F. Codd is not recognized as a CS legend?

7 points by macando 7y ago ↗ HN

He is the inventor of the relational model for database management. I've never seen him mentioned here. He did as much for the progress of our field as other more famous names (Knuth, Torvalds, Ritchie)

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greenyoda 7y ago ↗

He's officially recognized as a CS legend: he received the Turing Award in 1981.[1] (Knuth and Ritchie have also received it.)

He's come up periodically on HN[2], with several submissions of his famous 1970 paper on the relational model.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award#Recipients

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=codd%20relational&sort=byDate&...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18088951

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