Donald D. Chamberlin

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Donald D. Chamberlin is best known as one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification. More recently, he has contributed significantly to the XQuery language specification, now a W3C Candidate Recommendation. He is currently an IBM Fellow at the Almaden Research Center.

Chamberlin is also an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

He is the author of two books on IBM's DB2 UDB.

He holds a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D from Stanford University.

Chamberlin's bio at IBM Research