Donald Chamberlin

Name: Donald D. Chamberlin

Born: 1944 in San Jose, California, USA

Computer-related contributions

• American computer scientist known for SQL the world's most widely-used database language, System R, and XQuery.
• One of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce.
• He also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery.

Significant publications

• Author of two books on IBM's DB2 UDB, and more than 50 technical papers.
• He contributed a chapter to the 2003 book XQuery from the Experts.

Honors and awards

• ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award.
• ACM Software System Award.