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Donald (Don) Chamberlin

IBM Fellow Emeritus

Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA

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EducationB.S., Engineering,, 1966M.S., Electrical Engineering,, 1967Ph.D., Electrical Engineering,, 1971Employment History2009-present: Adjunct Professor of Computer Science,

Winter Quarter 2009: Regents' Professor of Computer Science,

2003-2008: IBM Fellow,,

San Jose, CA (Emeritus after 200*-****-****: Research Staff Member, IBM Research Division,

San Jose, CA and Yorktown Heights, NYSummary of Accomplishments2009-present: Emeritus

Learning, teaching, mentoring

1999-2008: XML Standards

Served as IBM representative on the W3C XML Query

Working Group and as principal editor of specifications for the

and

languages. With Jonathan Robie and Daniela Florescu, designed the

Quilt language which became the basis for the design of XQuery.

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 became W3C Recommendations in 2007.

XQuery now has many implementations and is widely

used in electronic commerce, data integration, and other web-based applications.

1991-1999: Relational Databases, DB2

Conducted database research and transfer of technology

into the DB2 line of relational database products.

Responsible for SQL grammar, design of catalog tables, and function

resolution algorithms. Participated in design of object-relational

functionality for DB2, including abstract data types, SQL-bodied functions,

and table hierarchies. Wrote two successful books on DB2, focusing on

application development.

1980-1990: Document Editing and Formatting

Managed research in advanced desktop publishing. Developed

an interactive document formatting system that was used by the

IBM Systems Journal and offered by IBM as a software product.

Explored research issues including editing of active objects, rule-based

pagination, and WYSIWYG user interfaces. Developed an architecture for a

system of cooperating, specialized editors for text, graphics, images, tables,

and mathematics. Demonstrated feasibility of an editor that supports user

interaction with logical and physical views of a document.

1971-1979: SQL, System R

Co-inventor of SQL, the world's most widely-used database

language. SQL was the first relational database language to be commercially

successful, and the first to take a unified approach to data definition,

manipulation, and control. SQL was adopted as an ANSI and ISO Standard in 1986,

and the Standard was updated in 1992, 1999, and 2003. SQL products have been

implemented by every major database vendor. Also served as one of the managers

of the System R project, which produced the first SQL implementation and

developed much of IBM's relational database technology. System R developed

the world's first cost-based query optimizer and demonstrated that a single

database system can handle both high-volume online transactions and

ad-hoc decision support queries.

Summary of PublicationsTwo books, two book chapters, four international standards (editor),

one encyclopedia article, three conference tutorials, more than 50 journal and

conference publications, two oral histories Honors and AwardsElected

Fellow of the Computer History Museum, 2009

Elected

IEEE Fellow, 2007Honorary Ph.D., University of Zurich, 2005Elected

IBM Fellow, 2003

SIGMOD Innovations Award, 2003

Dr. Dobbs Excellence in Programming Award, 2003Harvey Mudd College Outstanding Alumni Award, 2003Elected to

National Academy of Engineering, 1997Elected to

IBM Academy of Technology, 1997Elected

ACM Fellow, 1994

ACM Software System Award for System R, 1988Teaching ExperienceIntroduction to Java Programming,

University of California, Santa Cruz, 2009.Object-Oriented Programming with C++,

Santa Clara University, 1992-94ACM Programming Contest

Contributed problems and served as judge for the

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

for fourteen consecutive years (1998-2011).

Professional AffiliationsACM (Fellow)IEEE (Fellow)

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