Editing Hugh Darwen (section)

== 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]].<ref name = "BS12">{{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}}.</ref> He worked closely with [[Christopher J. Date]] and represented [[IBM]] at the [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]] [[SQL]] committees (JTC1 SC32 WG3 Database languages,<ref name = "WG3">{{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 }}.</ref> WG4 SQL/MM<ref name = "ISO">{{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 }}.</ref>) 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 programming|object-oriented programs]] with purely [[relational database]]s without compromising either side and getting the best of both worlds, arguably even better than with so-called [[object-oriented database]]s.{{Sfn | Date | Darwen | 1995}}

From 2004 to 2013 he lectured on [[relational database]]s at the Department of Computer Science, [[University of Warwick]] (UK),<ref>{{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 }}.</ref> and from 1989 to 2014 was a tutor and consultant for the [[Open University]] (UK)<ref name = "OpenAC">{{citation | title = M359 Course Guide – Relational databases: theory and practice | year = 2007 | publisher = The Open University |place=[[Milton Keynes]] | first = Kevin | last = Waugh}}.</ref> where he was awarded a [[British degree abbreviations#Postgraduate|MUniv honorary degree]] for academic and scholarly distinction.<ref name = "honours">{{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}}</ref> He was also awarded a [[DTech]] (Doctor in Technology) honorary degree by the [[University of Wolverhampton]].<ref>{{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 }}.</ref> He later taught a database language designed by Chris Date and himself called Tutorial D,<ref>{{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 }}</ref> part of a proposed family of database query languages called "D".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20101118021133/http://dbappbuilder.sourceforge.net/Rel.php#</ref>