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This year the whole world celebrates the five-hundredth birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus, the famous Polish astronomer and mathematician, whose book Concerning the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres described a new theory about the relative physical movements of the earth, the planets, and the sun.Citations
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On the Equivalence of Database Models
TL;DR: It is proved that network databases with loop-free Bachman diagrams are superior to relational databases which are free of conflicts and contenUons and shown that the decomposition approach can be apphed to conflictand contention-free relational databases without any of these problems.
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Third-generation database system manifesto
Michael Stonebraker,Lawrence A. Rowe,Bruce G. Lindsay,Jim Gray,Michael J. Carey,Michael L. Brodie,Philip A. Bernstein,David Beech +7 more
TL;DR: The preparation of beehives from a synthetic resinous material which is acceptable to the bees, which is not attacked by vermin, and which exhibits the requisite physical properties to provide a desirable beehive is accomplished by assembling the hives from molded urethane foam panels.
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Funding a revolution : government support for computing research
TL;DR: Funding a Revolution examines the history of computing since World War II to elucidate the federal government's role in funding computing research, supporting the education of computer scientists and engineers, and equipping university research labs.
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Evolution of Data-Base Management Systems
James P. Fry,Edgar H. Sibley +1 more
TL;DR: The history and definitions common to data-base technology are discussed, important concepts are discusses, and terminology for use by other papers in this issue is defined.
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CODASYL Data-Base Management Systems
TL;DR: This paper presents in tutorial fashion the concepts, notation, features, and examples of the data-base languages that were defined by the CODASYL Data Description Language and Programming Language Committees.
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Data structure diagrams
TL;DR: The invention of algebra, essentially a graphic technique for communicating truths with respect to classes of arithmetic statements, broke the bond that slowed the development of mathematics.