Donald D. Chamberlin is an American computer scientist who is one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce, and who also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to the SQL database query language.
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AwardSIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award 1 AwardComputer History Museum Fellow 1 Awardhonorary doctor of the University of Zurich 1 AwardACM Software System Award 1 Contribution Kind Highest HonourNational Academy of Engineering Member 2 Connections
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Donald D. Chamberlin is an American computer scientist who is one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce.
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December 21, 1944
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is an American computer scientist
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ACM Fellow (1994) National Academy of Engineering Member (1997) IBM Fellow (2003) IEEE Fellow (2007) ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award ACM Software System Award Computer History Museum Fellow (2009) IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2026)
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For his fundamental work on structured query language (SQL) and database architectures
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