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).

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.

Publications

• Darwen, Hugh; Date, C. J. (March 1995). "The third manifesto". ACM SIGMOD Record (New York, NY, USA: ACM Press) 24 (1): 39–49. doi:10.1145/202660.202667. ISSN 0163-5808. http://acm.org/sigmod/record/issues/9503/manifesto.ps. 

• Date, C. J. (August 1998). "Preview of The Third Manifesto". Database Programming & Design (San Francisco, CA: Miller Freeman Publications) 11 (8): 67. OCLC 89297479. ISSN 0895-4518. http://www.dbpd.com/vault/9808date.html. Retrieved on 2007-06-18. 

• Date, C. J.; Darwen, Hugh (1998). Foundation for object/relational databases: the third manifesto: a detailed study of the impact of objects and type theory on the relational model of data including a comprehensive proposal for type inheritance (1st edition ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. xxi, 496. LCCN 98-10364 LCC QA76.9.D3 D15994 1998. ISBN 0-201-30978-5. OCLC 38431501. 

• Date, C. J.; Darwen, Hugh (2000). Foundation for future database systems: the third manifesto: a detailed study of the impact of type theory on the relational model of data, including a comprehensive model of type inheritance (2nd edition ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Professional. xxiii, 547. LCCN 00-35527 LCC QA76.9.D3 D3683 2000. ISBN 0-201-70928-7. OCLC 43662285. 

• Date, C.J.; Hugh Darwen and Lorentzos, Nikos A (2003). Temporal data and the relational model: a detailed investigation into the application of interval and relation theory to the problem of temporal database management (1st ed.). San Diego, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. pp. 422 p. LCCN 2002-110398 LCC QA76.9.D3 D3729 2003. ISBN 1-55860-855-9. OCLC 51453450. 

• Date, C. J.; Darwen, Hugh (2006). Databases, types and the relational model: the third manifesto (3rd edition ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. pp. 572. ISBN 0-321-39942-0. OCLC 70044091. 

See also

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

External links

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

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