Melvin Earl Maron, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMelvin Earl Maron
American computer scientist
Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1924
Date of Death: 28-Sep-2016
Profession: computer scientist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Melvin Earl Maron
- Melvin Earl "Bill" Maron (Jan 23, 1924 - September 28, 2016) was an American computer scientist and emeritis professor of University of California, Berkeley.
- 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.
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