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Hugh Darwen

{{short description|English academic and writer about computers}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2017}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Hugh Darwen

|image = Hugh-darwen.jpg

|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1943}}

|birth_place = Warwick, England,

|employer = (until 2004) IBM

|death_date =

|death_place =

|other_names =

|known_for = Relational database theory

|occupation = author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database theory

|nationality = British

}}

Hugh Darwen is a computer scientist who was an employee of IBM United Kingdom from 1967{{citation | url = http://www.addison-wesley.de/9780201309782.html | author = Date & Darwen (1998b) | publisher = Addison-Wesley | title = Foundation for Object-Relational Databases | access-date = 22 January 2011 | location = Reading | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110718122053/http://www.addison-wesley.de/9780201309782.html | archive-date = 18 July 2011 | df = dmy-all }}. to 2004, and has been involved in the development of the relational model.{{Citation | title = Oracle database administrators as internal customers: Customer satisfaction criteria applied to technical decision making, performance, and evaluation | first = Jose R. | last = Valles | year = 2008 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Hj-qWwnUBV0C&q=%22Hugh+Darwen%22&pg=PA10 | page = 10 | publisher = Capella University | quote = The relational model was originally conceived by Dr. Edgar F. Codd and subsequently maintained and developed by Hugh Darwen and Chris Date as a general model of data | isbn = 978-0-549-34189-5 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Work

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.{{citation | url = http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/bs12.html | publisher = Paul McJones | title = System R | contribution = Business System 12 | first = Hugh | last = Darwen |date=November 1996 | access-date = 22 January 2011}}. He worked closely with Christopher J. Date and represented IBM at the ISO SQL committees (JTC1 SC32 WG3 Database languages,{{citation | url = http://jtc1sc32.org/doc/N1101-1150/32N1114-Xian-Attendees-0528-1000.doc | format = MS Word | publisher = ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 | place = Xi'an, CN | date = 17–28 May 2004 | title = List of Delegates | first = Douglas | last = Mann | access-date = 22 January 2011 | archive-date = 17 July 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110717051031/http://jtc1sc32.org/doc/N1101-1150/32N1114-Xian-Attendees-0528-1000.doc | url-status = dead }}. WG4 SQL/MM{{citation | first1 = Paul | last1 = Scarponcini | first2 = Hugh | last2 = Darwen | url = http://jtc1sc32.org/doc/N0301-0350/32N0343.pdf | publisher = ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 committee | series = Document register | title = Minutes of the SQL/MM WG4 Meeting and FCD and CD Continuation Editing Meetings | at = 9 and 13–17 July 1998 | place = Brisbane and Sydney | access-date = 22 January 2011 | archive-date = 17 July 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110717051021/http://jtc1sc32.org/doc/N0301-0350/32N0343.pdf | url-status = dead }}.) until his retirement from IBM. Darwen is the author of The Askew Wall{{Sfn | Darwen | 2006}} and co-author of The Third Manifesto, a proposal for serving object-oriented programs with purely relational databases without compromising either side and getting the best of both worlds, arguably even better than with so-called object-oriented databases.{{Sfn | Date | Darwen | 1995}}

From 2004 to 2013 he lectured on relational databases at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick (UK),{{citation | url = http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/hugh-darwen/b/824/615 | title = Profile | publisher = LinkedIn | first = Hugh | last = Darwen | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120715020409/http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/hugh-darwen/b/824/615 | archive-date = 15 July 2012 | df = dmy-all }}. and from 1989 to 2014 was a tutor and consultant for the Open University (UK){{citation | title = M359 Course Guide – Relational databases: theory and practice | year = 2007 | publisher = The Open University |place=Milton Keynes | first = Kevin | last = Waugh}}. where he was awarded a MUniv honorary degree for academic and scholarly distinction.{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/open-eye-time-to-honour-a-degree-of-openness-1091735.html | title = Open Eye: Time to honour a degree of openness |date=6 May 1999 |newspaper=The Independent |place=London}} He was also awarded a DTech (Doctor in Technology) honorary degree by the University of Wolverhampton.{{Citation | url = http://bcs.scit.wlv.ac.uk/projects/prize98.html | year = 1998 | title = BCS Prize Winners | publisher = University of Wolverhampton | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061009181329/http://bcs.scit.wlv.ac.uk/projects/prize98.html | archive-date = 9 October 2006 | df = dmy-all }}. He later taught a database language designed by Chris Date and himself called Tutorial D,{{cite news | url = http://features.techworld.com/applications/910/a-new-approach-to-querying-databases/ | title = A new approach to querying databases? the ABC of Tutorial D | newspaper = Techworld | first1 = David | last1 = Cartwright | date = 12 October 2004 | access-date = 22 January 2011 | archive-date = 26 August 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100826050244/http://features.techworld.com/applications/910/a-new-approach-to-querying-databases/ | url-status = dead }} part of a proposed family of database query languages called "D".https://web.archive.org/web/20101118021133/http://dbappbuilder.sourceforge.net/Rel.php#

Bridge

He has written two books on the card game bridge, both on the subject of {{gcb|doubledummy|double dummy problems}}, on which he has a website. Alan Truscott has called him "the world's leading authority" on composed bridge problems.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |date=3 January 1974 |first= Alan|last= Truscott| author-link= Alan Truscott | title = British Problemist Writes About 114 Game Quandaries}} He was responsible for the double dummy column in Bridge Magazine and other UK bridge publications from 1965 to 2004.

Publications

His early works were published under the pseudonym of Andrew Warden: both names are anagrams of his surname.{{clarify|date=May 2014|reason=any books as Andrew Warden?}}

  • {{citation | title = Bridge Magic: double dummy problems, single dummy, sure tricks, curios and inferentials – and a monograph on squeezes

| first1 = Hugh | last1 = Darwen

| publisher = Faber & Faber |location=London |date=1973 | isbn = 978-0-571-10250-1}}, 213 pp. {{OCLC |461769096}}[https://www.worldcat.org/title/461769096 "Bridge magic: double dummy problems, single dummy, sure tricks, curios and ..."]. Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 17 May 2014.

  • {{citation | title = A Compendium of Double Dummy Problems, double dummy bridge problems from 1896 to 2005

| first = Hugh | last = Darwen

| publisher = Master Point Press |location=Toronto |date=2021 | isbn = 978-1-77140-244-6}}, 331 pp. {{OCLC |1284983633}}[https://www.worldcat.org/title/1284983633 "COMPENDIUM OF DOUBLE DUMMY PROBLEMS : double dummy bridge problems from 1896 to 2005"]. Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 05 November 2022.

  • {{Citation |date=January 2006 | orig-year = 2005 | place = UK | url = http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/TTM-TheAskewWall-printable.pdf

| last = Darwen | first = Hugh |publisher=University of Warwick | author-mask = 8

| title = The Askew Wall: SQL and The Relational Model (background to The Third Manifesto)}}.

  • {{citation | first1 = Hugh | last1 = Darwen | url = http://bookboon.com/en/an-introduction-to-relational-database-theory-ebook

| title = An Introduction to Relational Database Theory | edition = 3rd |date=January 2009 | author-mask = 8

| publisher = BookBoon | isbn = 978-87-7681-500-4 }}, 231 pp.

  • {{citation | first1 = Hugh | last1 = Darwen | url = http://bookboon.com/en/sql-a-comparative-survey-ebook

| title = SQL: A Comparative Survey | edition = 2nd |date=November 2012 | author-mask = 8

| publisher = BookBoon | isbn = 978-87-403-0778-8 }}, 169 pp.

  • {{Citation | last1 = Date | first1 = Christopher J. | author-link1 = Christopher J. Date | last2 = Darwen | first2 = Hugh | date = March 1995 | title = The Third Manifesto | journal = ACM SIGMOD Record | volume = 24 | issue = 1 | pages = 39–49 | publisher = ACM Press | location = New York | issn = 0163-5808 | url = http://www.sigmod.org/publications/sigmod-record/9503/manifesto.ps/at_download/file | format = PostScript | doi = 10.1145/202660.202667 | s2cid = 12145199 | access-date = 16 November 2010 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120319144400/http://www.sigmod.org/publications/sigmod-record/9503/manifesto.ps/at_download/file | archive-date = 19 March 2012 | df = dmy-all }}
  • {{Citation | last1 = Date | first1 = Christopher J | author-link1 = Christopher J. Date

| last2 = Darwen | first2 = Hugh | author-mask = 8

| series = According to Date |date=August 1998

| title = Preview of The Third Manifesto | journal = Database Programming & Design

| publisher = Miller Freeman |location=San Francisco | volume = 11 | issue = 8

| issn = 0895-4518 | oclc = 89297479 | url = http://www.dbpd.com/vault/9808date.html | access-date = 18 June 2007}}, 67 pp.

  • {{Citation |last1 = Date |first1 =Christopher J |author1-link= Christopher J. Date

| last2 = Darwen | first2 = Hugh | author-mask = 8

| title = 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

| edition = 1st |year= 1998 | publisher= Addison-Wesley |location=Reading, MA | isbn= 0-201-30978-5

| oclc = 38431501 | id= {{LCC| QA76.9.D3 D15994 1998}} |lccn = 98010364}}, 496 pp.

  • {{Citation |last1 = Date |first1= Christopher J |author1-link= Christopher J. Date

| last2= Darwen | first2 = Hugh | author-mask = 8

| title = 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 | edition=2nd | year= 2000 | publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional

|location=Reading |isbn= 0-201-70928-7 |oclc=43662285

| id = {{LCC|QA76.9.D3 D3683 2000}} |lccn = 00035527}}, 547 pp.

  • {{Citation |last1 = Date | first1 =Christopher J |author1-link= Christopher J. Date

| first2 = Hugh | last2 = Darwen | author-mask = 8

| last3 = Lorentzos | first3 = Nikos A. | author3-link = Nikos Lorentzos

| title = Temporal Data and the Relational Model: a detailed investigation into the application of interval and relation theory to the problem of temporal database management

| edition = 1st | year = 2003 | publisher = Morgan Kaufmann |location=San Diego

| isbn = 1-55860-855-9 | oclc=51453450 | id= {{LCC|QA76.9.D3 D3729 2003}} |lccn = 2002110398}}, 422 pp.

  • {{Citation | last1 = Date | first1 = Christopher J | author1-link = Christopher J. Date | last2 = Darwen | first2 = Hugh | author-mask = 8 | title = Databases, Types and The Relational Model: the Third Manifesto | edition = 3rd | year = 2006 | publisher = Addison-Wesley | location = Reading | isbn = 0-321-39942-0 | oclc = 70044091 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/databasestypesre0003date }}, 572 pp.
  • {{citation | first1 = Christopher J | last1 = Date | author1-link = Christopher J. Date

| first2 = Hugh | last2 = Darwen | author-mask = 8

| title = Database Explorations: Essays on the Third Manifesto and Related Topics

|date=July 2010 | publisher = Trafford | isbn = 978-1-4269-3723-1}}, 548 pp.

References

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External links

  • {{official website }} at University of Warwick
  • [http://www.doubledummy.net Double Dummy Corner] – Darwen's website devoted to problems in the play of the cards at bridge
  • [http://www.thethirdmanifesto.com The Third Manifesto] (Date & Darwen 1995) – with material related to the book and links to Darwen's seminar and lecture slides
  • {{LCAuth|n88157880|Hugh Darwen|8|ue}}
  • [http://lccn.loc.gov/n88157887 Andrew Warden] at LC Authorities with 1 catalogue record (1990 collection)

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