Hugh Darwen

Hugh Darwen
Born 1943 (age 72–73)
Warwick, England,
Nationality UK
Occupation author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database theory
Employer (until 2004) IBM
Known for Relational database theory

Hugh Darwen is a computer scientist who was an employee of IBM United Kingdom from 1967[1] to 2004, and has been involved in the history of the relational model.[2]

Work

From 1978 to 1982 he was a chief architect on Business System 12, a database management system that faithfully embraced the principles of the relational model.[3] He works closely with Christopher J. Date and represented IBM at the ISO SQL committees (JTC1 SC32 WG3 Database languages,[4] WG4 SQL/MM[5]) until his retirement from IBM. Darwen is the author of The Askew Wall[6] and co-author of The Third Manifesto, a proposal for serving object-oriented programs with purely relational databases without compromising either side and getting the best of both worlds, arguably even better than with so-called object-oriented databases.[7]

From 2004 to 2013 he lectured on relational databases at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick (UK),[8] and from 1989 to 2014 was a tutor and consultant for the Open University (UK)[9] where he was awarded a MUniv honorary degree for academic and scholarly distinction.[10] He was also awarded a DTech (Doctor in Technology) honorary degree by the University of Wolverhampton.[11] He currently teaches a database language designed by Chris Date and himself called Tutorial D.[12]

Bridge

He has written a book on the card game bridge and has a website on the subject of double dummy problems. Alan Truscott has called him "the world's leading authority" on composed bridge problems.[13] He was responsible for the double dummy column in Bridge Magazine from 1965 to 1990.

Publications

His early works were published under the pseudonym of Andrew Warden: both names are anagrams of his surname.

References

  1. ↑ Date & Darwen (1998b), Foundation for Object-Relational Databases, Reading: Addison-Wesley, retrieved 2011-01-22.
  2. ↑ Valles, Jose R. (2008), Oracle database administrators as internal customers: Customer satisfaction criteria applied to technical decision making, performance, and evaluation, Capella University. School of Business; ProQuest, p. 10, ISBN 978-0-549-34189-5, The relational model was originally conceived by Dr. Edgar F. Codd and subsequently maintained and developed by Hugh Darwen and Chris Date as a general model of data
  3. ↑ Darwen, Hugh (November 1996), "Business System 12", System R, Paul McJones, retrieved 2011-01-22.
  4. ↑ Mann, Douglas (17–28 May 2004), List of Delegates (MS Word), Xi'an, CN: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32.
  5. ↑ Scarponcini, Paul; Darwen, Hugh, Minutes of the SQL/MM WG4 Meeting and FCD and CD Continuation Editing Meetings (PDF), Document register, Brisbane and Sydney: ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 committee, 9 and 13–17 July 1998.
  6. ↑ Darwen 2006.
  7. ↑ Date & Darwen 1995.
  8. ↑ Darwen, Hugh, Profile, LinkedIn.
  9. ↑ Waugh, Kevin (2007), M359 Course Guide — Relational databases: theory and practice, Milton Keynes: The Open University.
  10. ↑ "Open Eye: Time to honour a degree of openness". The Independent. London. 6 May 1999.
  11. ↑ BCS Prize Winners, University of Wolverhampton, 1998.
  12. ↑ Cartwright, David (12 October 2004). "A new approach to querying databases? the ABC of Tutorial D". Techworld.
  13. ↑ Truscott, Alan (3 January 1974). "British Problemist Writes About 114 Game Quandaries". The New York Times.
  14. ↑ "Bridge magic: double dummy problems, single dummy, sure tricks, curios and ...". Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
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