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. SQL (commonly expanded to Structured Query Language — see History for the terms derivation) is the most popular computer language used to create, retrieve, update and delete (see also: CRUD) data from relational database management systems. ... XQuery is a query language (with some programming language features) that is designed to query collections of XML data. ... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a consortium that produces standards—recommendations, as they call them—for the World Wide Web. ... An IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM’s CEO. Typically only 4 or 5 IBM Fellows are appointed each year, at the annual Corporate Technical Recognition Event (CTRE) event in June. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: A page of links If you disagree with its speedy deletion, please explain why on its talk page or at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. ...

Chamberlin is also an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the worlds first scientific and educational computing society. ... The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-ee) is an international non-profit, professional organization incorporated in the State of New York, United States. ... Founded in 1964, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in the United States provides engineering leadership in service to the nation. ...

He is the author of two books on IBM's DB2 UDB. DB2 is IBMs line of RDBMS (or, as IBM now calls it, data server) software products within IBMs broader Information Management software line. ...

He holds a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D from Stanford University. Harvey Mudd College is a highly selective, private college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. ... The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in an unincorporated area of Santa Clara County. ...

Chamberlin's bio at IBM Research