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Charles W. Bachman is a prominent computer scientist, particularly in the area of databases. Computer science (informally: CS or compsci) is, in its most general sense, the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software. ...
A database is an organized collection of data. ...
He received the Turing Award in 1973 for "his outstanding contributions to database technology". The A.M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. ...
1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
He was elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1977 for his pioneering work in database systems. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...
Bachman is somewhat unusual for a Turing Award winner as he spent his entire career as an industrial researcher rather than in academia. Initially starting work in 1950 at Dow Chemical, he rose to the position of Data Processing manager before leaving in 1960 to join General Electric, where he developed the IDS (Integrated Data Store), one of the first database management systems. Working in conjunction with Weyerhaeuser Lumber, he developed the first multiprogramming access to the IDS database. Later at GE he developed the "dataBasic" product that offered database support to the Basic Language timesharing users. The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA. In terms of market capitalization, it is the second-largest chemical company in the world, smaller than only DuPont. ...
GE redirects here; for other uses, see GE (disambiguation). ...
Integrated Data Store (IDS) is a network database largely used by industry for its performance. ...
A database management system (DBMS) is a computer program (or more typically, a suite of them) designed to manage a database, a large set of structured data, and run operations on the data requested by numerous users. ...
Later in his career, he joined a smaller firm, Cullinane Information Systems (later called Cullinet), which offered a version of IDS that was called IDMS and supported the IBM mainframes. Cullinet was a software company whose main product was the database management system, IDMS. In 1989, the company was bought by Computer Associates. ...
IDMS (Integrated Database Management System) is a (network) CODASYL database management system first developed at B.F. Goodrich and later marketed by Cullinane Database Systems (renamed Cullinet in 1983). ...
In 1983, he founded Bachman Information Systems that developed a line of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) products. The center piece of these products was the BACHMAN/Data Analyst, which provided graphic support to the creation and maintenance of data structure diagrams Bachman Diagrams. It was featured in IBM's Reengineering Cycle marketing program: combining 1) the reverse engineering of obsolete mainframe databases, 2) data modeling, 3) forward engineering to new physical databases, and 4) optimization of physical database designs for performance and DBMS specifics. Categories: Stub | Software engineering | Data management ...
Bachman Diagram Used to design the data using a network logical model, separating the data model from the way the data is stored in the system. ...
Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of taking something (a device, an electrical component, a software program, etc. ...
He is known to have had heated debates with Dr. Edgar F. Codd, who favored relational model databases over the navigational database approaches trumpeted by Bachman. Edgar Ted Codd Edgar F. Ted Codd (August 23, 1923 – April 18, 2003) was a British computer scientist who made seminal contributions to the theory of relational databases. ...
It has been suggested that Relational database be merged into this article or section. ...
Navigational databases incorporate both the network model and hierarchical model of database interfaces. ...
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