Donald D. Chamberlin

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Donald D. Chamberlin (called Don Chamberlin ; born December 21, 1944 in San José , California) is an American computer scientist who deals with relational databases . He is one of the developers of SQL .

Chamberlin graduated from Harvey Mudd College with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and received a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1971 ( Parallel Implementation of a Single-Assignment Language ). He has been doing research for IBM since 1971 , first at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and later at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San José. In 2003 he became an IBM Fellow and in 2009 he retired from IBM.

From 1992 to 1995 he was Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University. In the 2000s he taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz .

In the mid-1970s, he and Raymond F. Boyce developed the database query language SQL (or its predecessor SEQUEL). He was a manager on the System R project at IBM that implemented SQL.

Later he was involved in the development of XQuery , an XML query language. Together with Jonathan Robie and Dana Florescu he developed the previous language Quilt, on which XQuery is based. He is co-editor of the W3C standards on XQuery and XPath.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering . In 1988 he received the ACM Software System Award. In 2005 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2003 he received the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award.

Fonts

  • A complete guide to DB2 universal database , Morgan Kauffmann Publishers, 1998
    • German translation: DB2 Universal Database , 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley 1999
  • Using the New DB2: IBM's Object-Relational Database System , Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1996
  • SQL , in: Ling Liu, M. Tamer Ozsu (Editor) Encyclopedia of Database Systems , Springer, 2009
  • Sharing Our Planet , in PJ Denning. R. Metcalfe (Editor) Beyond Calculation: the Next Fifty Years of Computing , Copernicus Press, 1997
  • Influences on the Design of XQuery , in H. Katz (Editor) XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language , Addison-Wesley, 2003

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Chamberlin, Boyce SEQUEL: a Structured English Query Language , Proc. ACM SIGFIDET Conference, May 1974
  3. ↑ Chamberlin, Robie, Florescu Quilt: an XML query language for heterogeneous data sources , Proc. XML 2000 Conference, June 2000
personal data
SURNAME Chamberlin, Donald D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chamberlin, Don
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose