Melvin Earl "Bill" Maron (Jan 23, 1924 - September 28, 2016) was an American computer scientist and emeritis professor of
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
. 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.
Maron is best known for his work on probabilistic
information retrieval which he published together with his friend and colleague Lary Kuhns.
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.
References
University of California, Berkeley School of Information faculty
American computer scientists
1924 births
2016 deaths
University of Nebraska alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
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