By Lawrence M. Fisher
Communications of the ACM,
September 2017,
Vol. 60 No. 9, Pages 24-25
10.1145/3125605
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Charles William "Charlie" Bachman, the "father of databases" who received the ACM A.M. Turing Award for 1973 for creating the first database management system, died June 13 at the age of 92.
Born in Manhattan, KS, in 1924, Bachman earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1948, as well as an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
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