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[

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award#Recipients [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=codd%20relational&sort=byDate&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=codd%20relational&sort=byDate&... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18088951 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18088951