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It’s a shame that no one in academia has bothered so far to curate a critical, annotated, edition of Codd’s collected works. His impact was immense (for good and for bad, e.g., nulls in SQL) and he foresaw many of the important issues of data management in the years to come (up to nowadays), including the relevance of distributed systems and the need for different ways of looking at data, as sets, as tables, as predicates, as graphs.

Unfortunately, people who knew or worked with him have died or are getting old, so I’m losing hope…