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Charles Bachman

Also Known As Charles William Bachman III
Information Systems

Charles Bachman was an American computer scientist who developed Integrated Data Store at General Electric in the early 1960s, one of the first database management systems built for business use. His work established the network model of database organization, later formalized by the CODASYL standards committee and widely used before the relational model became dominant. Bachman won the Turing Award in 1973, the first time it was awarded to someone working in industry rather than academia.

Facts
Birth Year
1924 1
Birth Date
1924-12-11 1
Death Year
2017 1
Death Date
2017-07-13 1
Nationality
American 1
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Turing Award 2
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ACM Fellow 2
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Computer History Museum Fellow 2
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Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society 2
Award
Fellow of the British Computer Society 2
Award
National Medal of Technology and Innovation 2
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What did Charles Bachman do after building the Integrated Data Store?

He built WEYCOS in 1965, worked on IDMS at Cullinane from 1981, and founded Bachman Information Systems in 1983.

In 1965, working for the customer Weyerhaeuser Lumber, Bachman developed WEYCOS, which gave the first multiprogramming network access to the Integrated Data Store database and was an early online transaction processing system. In 1981 he joined Cullinane Information Systems, which offered a version of the store called IDMS for IBM mainframes. In 1983 he founded Bachman Information Systems, whose computer-aided software engineering products were built around graphic support for Bachman diagrams.
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Databases, Fields
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United States

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1. Wikipedia: Charles Bachman
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  • Lead section
    Charles William Bachman III (December 11, 1924 - July 13, 2017) was an American computer scientist, who spent his entire career as an industrial researcher, developer, and manager rather than in academia.
  • In Group: Data Management Systems
  • In Field: Databases, Lead paragraph
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2. Wikidata: Charles Bachman
Wikidata Q62894, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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