Raymond F. Boyce
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Raymond 'Ray' Boyce was an American computer scientist
Computer scientist
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 who was known for his research in relational database
Relational database
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s.

Boyce grew up in New York
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, and went to college in Providence, Rhode Island
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. He earned his PhD
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 in computer science at Purdue in 1971 http://www.cs.purdue.edu/phds/#Jun_1971. After leaving Purdue he worked on database
Database
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 projects for IBM
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 in Yorktown Heights, New York
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. 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
Donald D. Chamberlin
Donald D. Chamberlin is an American computer scientist who is best known as one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce. He also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery....

 he co-developed Structured Query Language (SQL
SQL
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) while managing the Relation Database development group for IBM in San Jose, California
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. He died in 1974 as a result of an aneurysm
Aneurysm
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of the brain, leaving behind his wife of almost five years, Sandy, and his daughter Kristin, who was just ten months old.
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