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SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award

The ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award is a lifetime research achievement award given by the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data, at its yearly flagship conference (also called SIGMOD).

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Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing.

Edgar F. Codd

Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (19 August 1923 - 18 April 2003) was an English computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases and relational database management systems.