Don Chamberlin

Don Chamberlin is one of IBM's representatives in the W3C XML Query Working Group. He is also a co-author of the Quilt language proposal, which formed the basis for the XQuery design. Don is best known as co- inventor of the SQL database language and as author of two books on the DB2 database system. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and is an IBM Fellow at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He is also an ACM Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Don is an editor of the working drafts of XML Query Use Cases [XQ-UC], XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language [XQ-LANG], and XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 [XPATH2].