23 Apr 2003
Edgar Codd, RIP

The father of the relational database has dropped normal form ... his books and ideas were not only groundbreaking and interesting, they were useful.

Edgar Codd, database theorist, dies at 79. The mathematician laid the theoretical foundation for the standard method by which information is organized in and retrieved from computers.


The New York Times [CNET News.com]

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Patent Processes

A very nice article from Scientific American on the absurdities in the modern patent process.

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