Relational Database: A Practical Foundation for Productivity, 1981

The 1981 ACM Turing Award was presented to Edgar E Codd, an IBM Fellow of the San Jose Research Laboratory, by President Peter Denning on November 9, 1981, at the ACM Annual Conference in Los Angeles, California. It is the Association's foremost award for technical contributions to the computing community. Codd was selected by the ACM General Technical Achievement Award Committee for his "~undamental and continuing contributions to the theory and practice of database management systems." The originator of the relational model for databases, Codd has made further important contributions in the development of relational algebra, relational calculus, and normalization of relations. Edgar E Coddjoined IBM in 1949 to prepare programs for the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator. Since then, his work in computing has encompassed logical design of computers [IBM 701 and Stretch], managing a computer center in Canada, heading the development of one of the first operating systems with a general multiprogramming capability, con-