Week 4

Haigh, Thomas. “How Charles Bachman Invented the DBMS, a Foundation of Our Digital World.” Communications of the ACM 59, no. 7 (2016): 25–30.

Metaxides, A., W. B. Helgeson, R. E. Seth, et al. Data Base Task Group Report to the CODASYL Programming Language Committee (selections). Association for Computing Machinery, 1971.

Sawtelle, Thomas K. The Emerging Role of the Data Base Manager. R-1253-PR. United States Airforce Project Rand, 1973. http://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED095918.

Deleuze, Gilles, Félix Guattari, Brian Massumi, and Gilles Deleuze. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (selections). Ed. 2004, Repr. 2011. Continuum, 2011.

In class

Today’s slides

Charles W. Bachman, “Data Structure Diagrams,” SIGMIS Database 1, no. 2 (1969): 4–10, https://doi.org/10.1145/1017466.1017467.

Mike O’Connell, “Data Base Management: What’s It All About?,” Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977.