Donald D. Chamberlin
| Donald D. Chamberlin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1944 (age 72–73) San Jose, California, United States |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Computer science, Databases |
| Institutions |
University of California, Santa Cruz (2009) IBM Research Watson Research Center (1971), Almaden Research Center (1973) |
| Alma mater |
Harvey Mudd College (B.S., 1966) Stanford University (M.S., 1967; Ph.D., 1971) |
| Known for | SQL, System R, XQuery |
| Notable 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) |
Donald D. Chamberlin (born 21 December 1944) is an American computer scientist who is best known as one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce. He also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery.
Donald D. Chamberlin was born in San Jose, California. After attending Campbell High School he studied engineering at Harvey Mudd College from where he holds a B.S. After graduating he went to Stanford University on a National Science Foundation grant where he studied electrical engineering and minored in computer science. Chamberlin holds an M.Sc and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. After graduating Chamberlin went to work for IBM Research at the Yorktown Heights research facility in New York where he had previously had a summer internship.
Chamberlin is probably best known as co-inventor of SQL (Structured Query Language), the world's most widely used database language. Developed in the mid-1970s by Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce, SQL was the first commercially successful language for relational databases. Chamberlin also was one of the managers of IBM's System R project, which produced the first SQL implementation and developed much of IBM's relational database technology. System R, together with the Ingres project at U.C. Berkeley, received the ACM Software System Award in 1988. Until his retirement in 2009 he was based at the Almaden Research Center. He was appointed an IBM Fellow in 2003.
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