Hugh Darwen, employee of IBM UK from 1967 to 2004, has been involved in the history of the relational model since the beginning. He created the first fully relational system, IBM BS12. He works closely with Christopher J. Date and represented IBM at the ISO SQL committee until his retirement from IBM. His proposals to make SQL less relationally insane unfortunately weren't always accepted. Author of The Askew Wall . Co-author of The Third Manifesto.

Trivia

• Early works under the psuedonym of Andrew Warden (anagrams of his surname).
• First degree was in Zoology from the University of Birmingham.

External Links

• The Third Manifesto Contains material related to the book and links to Hugh Darwen's seminar and lecture slides.