Artifact Details

Title

Date, Chris (Christopher J.) oral history

Catalog Number

102658166

Type

Document

Description

Christopher J. "Chris" Date, the database management system specialist and writer, talks about his early background and education, his joining IBM and his initial work in programmer training at the Hursley Lab. This was followed by work on database management under PL/I which led to his involvement in the relational data base concept. He then talks about producing his first database book and how it evolved over time. This book was followed by many additional database textbooks and papers. He had developed a relationship with Ted Codd early in his career and, after both left IBM, they started the Codd and Date companies. Finally, he describes his work with Hugh Darwen on The Third Manifesto, which presents his view of the foundation for future database systems.

Date

2007-06-13

Contributor

Date, Chris J., Interviewee
Grad, Burt, Editor
Haigh, Thomas, Interviewer

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Extent

51 p.

Category

Transcription

Subject

Leo Computers; IBM Hursley Lab; PL/I; McMorran, Mike; SQL; Query By Example; Zloof, Moshé; QUEL; Hopewell, Paul; Introduction to Database Systems; Codasyl Database Task Group; Bachman, Charles; ACM SIGMOD Debate; Relational Systems; A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks; Hierarchical Databases; Network Databases; System R; SQL/DS; DB2; IMS; Unified Database Language; Codd and Date Companies; Pascal, Fabian; The Third Manifesto; Fagin, Ron; Codd, E.F. (Ted); Codd, Sharon; Darwen, Hugh; Date, C.J. (Chris); Cambridge University

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Lot Number

X4090.2007