Donald D. Chamberlin

Donald D. Chamberlin
Don Chamberlin at the Computer History Museum's 2009 Fellows Award event
Born
Donald D. Chamberlin

(1944-12-21) December 21, 1944 (age 79)
San Jose, California, United States
Alma materHarvey Mudd College (B.S., 1966)
Stanford University (M.S., 1967; PhD, 1971)
Known forSQL, System R, XQuery
AwardsACM 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
FieldsComputer science, Databases
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz (2009)
IBM Research Watson Research Center (1971), Almaden Research Center (1973)

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.

Chamberlin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to the SQL database query language.

  1. ^ "Donald Chamberlin". CHM.