Editing 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<ref name="AW">{{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 }}.</ref> to 2004, and has been involved in the development of the [[relational model]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

== 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>

== Bridge ==
He has written two books on the card game [[contract bridge|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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}}<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/title/461769096 "Bridge magic: double dummy problems, single dummy, sure tricks, curios and&nbsp;..."]. Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 17 May 2014.</ref> 
* {{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}}<ref>[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.</ref> 
* {{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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