Hugh Darwen

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Hugh Darwen, employee of IBM UK from 1967 to 2004, has been involved in the history of the relational model since the beginning. 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. He works closely with Christopher J. Date and represented IBM at the ISO SQL committee (JTC 1/SC 32/WG 3 Database languages) until his retirement from IBM. Darwen is author of The Askew Wall and co-author of The Third Manifesto.

He is currently giving lectures on Relational Databases at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick (UK) and he is also a tutor for the Open University (UK).

[edit] Trivia

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• His early works were published under the pseudonym of Andrew Warden (anagrams of his surname).
• He has written a book on the card game bridge and has a website on the subject of double dummy problems.
• Hugh currently teaches a small language designed by himself and Chris Date called Tutorial D.

[edit] See also

• The Third Manifesto
• Christopher J. Date
• Fabian Pascal
• David McGoveran
• Nikos Lorentzos

[edit] External links

• The Third Manifesto contains material related to the book and links to Hugh Darwen's seminar and lecture slides.