Ted Codd, an English-born researcher at IBM in California, introduced the relational model of data in 1970 to unify the hierarchical and networking approaches to database design that had emerged during the 1960s.

The publication of his 11-page paper, titled ‘A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks’, marks the most significant event in the history of the data-processing industry, for it provides a mathematical representation of the basic resource of the industry: data itself.

Furthermore, as the relational model is nondeductive, it also marks the most significant turning point in the entire history of logic and mathematics, for, ever since Aristotle and Euclid, these reasoning processes have been linear, a far remove from the underlying structure of the Universe and how we humans actually reason.

The relational model of data, enhanced by the semantics of object-oriented modelling methods, has since evolved into Integral Relational Logic, providing the Cosmic Context, Gnostic Foundation, and coordinating framework for the Theory of Everything, cognitively mapping the Totality of Existence.