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Melvin Earl "Bill" Maron (Jan 23, 1924 - September 28, 2016) was an American computer scientist and emeritis professor of University of California, Berkeley. He studied mechanical engineering and physics at the University of Nebraska and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California in 1951. Maron is best known for his work on probabilistic information retrieval which he published together with his friend and colleague Lary Kuhns. Quite remarkably, Maron also pioneered relational databases, proposing a system called the Relational Data File in 1967, on which Ted Codd based his Relational model of data.

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1. "In Memory of Professor Emeritus Melvin "Bill" Maron". UC Berkeley School of Information. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
2. "Contributors". Transactions of the I.R.E. Professional Group on Electronic Computers. EC-3 (2): 50–51. 1954-06-01. doi:10.1109/IREPGELC.1954.6499422. ISSN 2168-1740.
3. Maron, Melvin E.; Kuhns, J. L. (1960). "On relevance, probabilistic indexing, and information retrieval". Journal of the ACM. 7 (3): 216–244. doi:10.1145/321033.321035. S2CID 11592162.
4. Maron, Melvin E. (2008). "An Historical Note on the Origins of Probabilistic Indexing" (PDF). Information Processing and Management. 44 (2): 971–972. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2007.02.012.
5. Levein, Roger E.; Maron, Melvin E. (1967). "A computer system for inference execution and data retrieval". Communications of the ACM. 10 (11): 715–721. doi:10.1145/363790.363817. S2CID 14979585.

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