History of Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (RDBMS)

Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (August 23, 1923 – April 18, 2003) was born on the Isle of Portland, in England. After attending
Poole Grammar School, he studied mathematics and
chemistry at Exeter College, Oxford, before serving as a pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
In 1948, he moved to New York to work for IBM as a mathematical programmer.

In 1953, angered by Senator Joseph McCarthy,
Codd moved to Ottawa, Canada. A decade later he returned to the U.S. and received his doctorate in computer science from
the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Two years later he moved to San Jose, California to work at IBM's San Jose
Research Laboratory, Codd first published Codd's Rule in 1970 when he worked at IBM's San Jose Research Laboratory, where he continued
to work until the 1980s.

During the 1990s, his health deteriorated and he ceased work.

Codd received the Turing Award in 1981 and in 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Codd died of heart failure at his home in Williams Island, Florida at the age of 79 on Friday, April 18, 2003.