Raymond F. Boyce

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Raymond 'Ray' Boyce
Died	1974
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	IBM
Known for	Relational Model SQL Boyce-Codd Normal Form

Raymond 'Ray' Boyce is a computer scientist who was known for his research in relational databases.

Boyce grew up in New York, and went to college in Providence, Rhode Island. He earned his PhD at Purdue in 1971 [1]. After leaving Purdue he worked on database projects for IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York. In the short period that he had, which was not quite two years long, he co-developed Boyce-Codd Normal Form. Together with Donald D. Chamberlin he co-developed Structured Query Language (SQL) while managing the Relation Database development group for IBM in San Jose, California. He died in 1974 as a result of an aneurysm of the brain, just a few months after his marriage to Sandy when his daughter Kristen was just nine months old.

[edit] References

• The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics (early history of SQL)
• “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.