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Hugh Darwen

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Hugh Darwen is a computer scientist who was an employee of IBM United Kingdom from 1967<ref name="AW">Template:Citation.</ref> to 2004, and has been involved in the development of the relational model.<ref>Template:CitationTemplate:Dead link</ref>

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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">Template:Citation.</ref> He worked closely with Christopher J. Date and represented IBM at the ISO SQL committees (JTC1 SC32 WG3 Database languages,<ref name = "WG3">Template:Citation.</ref> WG4 SQL/MM<ref name = "ISO">Template:Citation.</ref>) until his retirement from IBM. Darwen is the author of The Askew WallTemplate:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn

From 2004 to 2013 he lectured on relational databases at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick (UK),<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> and from 1989 to 2014 was a tutor and consultant for the Open University (UK)<ref name = "OpenAC">Template:Citation.</ref> where he was awarded a MUniv honorary degree for academic and scholarly distinction.<ref name = "honours">Template:Cite news</ref> He was also awarded a DTech (Doctor in Technology) honorary degree by the University of Wolverhampton.<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> He later taught a database language designed by Chris Date and himself called Tutorial D,<ref>Template:Cite news</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>

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He has written two books on the card game bridge, both on the subject of Template:Gcb, on which he has a website. Alan Truscott has called him "the world's leading authority" on composed bridge problems.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was responsible for the double dummy column in Bridge Magazine and other UK bridge publications from 1965 to 2004.

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His early works were published under the pseudonym of Andrew Warden: both names are anagrams of his surname.Template:Clarify

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