Donald D. Chamberlin: advisors and students

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Donald D. Chamberlin

American computer scientist (born 1944)born 1944

Wikidata names Edward J. McCluskey as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Edward J. McCluskey

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataEdward J. McCluskey
2 steps up
stated by WikidataSamuel Hawks Caldwell
3 steps up
stated by WikidataVannevar Bush
4 steps up
stated by WikidataDugald C. Jackson

Education and career4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

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Harvey Mudd College
studied
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Stanford University
studied
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Campbell High School
studied
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IBM
worked

At a glance

known as: computer scientist
awards: IBM Fellow, 2003, Computer History Museum Fellow, 2009, ACM Software System Award, 1988, SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, 2003, ACM Fellow, 1994, honorary doctor of the University of Zurich, 2005
member of: National Academy of Engineering, from 1997, Association for Computing Machinery, from 1994
notable works: SQL
Wikipedia: in 9 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere9

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaDonald Chamberlin
stated by WikidataWikidataQ93071
stated by WikidataVIAF18069741
stated by WikidataGND107087874X
stated by WikidataIdRef075905957
stated by WikidataISNI0000000024324705

papers

stated by WikidataDBLPc/DDChamberlin
stated by WikidataScopus7005587366

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project86613

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Read on 27 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q93071,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Donald D. Chamberlin: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q93071},
  note = {read on 2026-10-27}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 27). Donald D. Chamberlin: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-27]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q93071