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Dr.

Patricia Griffiths Selinger

IBM Research
Computer scientist; Company research administrator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Computer Sciences
Elected
2011
As a member of the IBM System R project in the 1970s, helped establish the field of relational database systems. Technical contributions of the System R project include the SQL query language, cost-based query optimization, and log-based recovery techniques. These techniques remain the cornerstone of modern relational database systems. Received the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (2002).
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