- Raymond F. Boyce
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death_date = 1974
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field =Computer Science
work_institution = IBM
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known_for =Relational Model SQL Boyce-Codd Normal Form
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footnotes =Raymond 'Ray' Boyce is a
computer scientist who was known for his research inrelational database s.Boyce grew up in
New York , and went to college inProvidence, Rhode Island . He earned hisPhD atPurdue in1971 [http://www.cs.purdue.edu/phds/#Jun_1971] . After leaving Purdue he worked ondatabase projects forIBM inYorktown Heights, New York . In the short period that he had, which was not quite two years long, he co-developedBoyce-Codd Normal Form . Together withDonald D. Chamberlin he co-developed Structured Query Language (SQL ) while managing the Relation Database development group for IBM inSan Jose, California . He died in1974 as a result of ananeurysm of the brain, just a few months after his marriage to Sandy when his daughter Kristen was just nine months old.References
* [http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/ The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics (early history of SQL)]
* [http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/chamberlin/sequel-1974.pdf “SEQUEL: A Structured English Query Language”] D.D. Chamberlin and R.F. Boyce, Proc. ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Data Description, Access and Control, Ann Arbor, Michigan (May 1974) pages 249-264.
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