Donald D. Chamberlin
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Donald D. Chamberlin is an American computer scientist who is one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce. He also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery.
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Born | Donald D. Chamberlin (1944-12-21) December 21, 1944 (age 79) San Jose, California, United States |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Harvey Mudd College (B.S., 1966) Stanford University (M.S., 1967; PhD, 1971) |
Known for | SQL, System R, XQuery |
Awards | ACM Fellow (1994) National Academy of Engineering Member (1997) IBM Fellow (2003) IEEE Fellow (2007) ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award ACM Software System Award Computer History Museum Fellow (2009)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science, Databases |
Institutions | University of California, Santa Cruz (2009) IBM Research Watson Research Center (1971), Almaden Research Center (1973) |
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Chamberlin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to the SQL database query language.