Melvin Earl Maron | |
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Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Melvin Earl "Bill" Maron (Jan 23, 1924 - September 28, 2016) was an American computer scientist and emeritis professor of University of California, Berkeley. [1] He studied mechanical engineering and physics at the University of Nebraska and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California in 1951. [2] Maron is best known for his work on probabilistic information retrieval which he published together with his friend and colleague Lary Kuhns. [3] [4] Quite remarkably, Maron also pioneered relational databases, proposing a system called the Relational Data File in 1967, on which Ted Codd based his Relational model of data. [5]