Hugh Darwen is a computer scientist who was an employee of

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United Kingdom from 1967. to 2004, and has been involved in the development of the

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Work

From 1978 to 1982 he was a chief architect on Business System 12, a

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that faithfully embraced the principles of the

.. He worked closely with Christopher J. Date and represented

at the

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committees (JTC1 SC32 WG3 Database languages,. WG4 SQL/MM.) until his retirement from IBM. Darwen is the author of The Askew Wall and co-author of The Third Manifesto, a proposal for serving object-oriented programs with purely

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s without compromising either side and getting the best of both worlds, arguably even better than with so-called

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s. From 2004 to 2013 he lectured on

s at the Department of Computer Science,

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(UK), and from 1989 to 2014 was a tutor and consultant for the

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(UK). where he was awarded a MUniv honorary degree for academic and scholarly distinction. He was also awarded a DTech (Doctor in Technology) honorary degree by the

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. He later taught a database language designed by Chris Date and himself called Tutorial D, part of a proposed family of database query languages called "D".

Bridge

He has written two books on the card game

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, both on the subject of , on which he has a website.

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has called him "the world's leading authority" on composed bridge problems. He was responsible for the double dummy column in ''

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'' and other UK bridge publications from 1965 to 2004.

Publications

His early works were published under the

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of ''Andrew Warden'': both names are anagrams of his surname. * , 213 pp. * , 331 pp. "COMPENDIUM OF DOUBLE DUMMY PROBLEMS : double dummy bridge problems from 1896 to 2005"
Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 05 November 2022. * . * , 231 pp. * , 169 pp. * * , 67 pp. * , 496 pp. *, 547 pp. *, 422 pp. *, 572 pp. *, 548 pp.

References

External links

* at University of Warwick
Double Dummy Corner
– Darwen's website devoted to problems in the play of the cards at bridge
''The Third Manifesto''
(Date & Darwen 1995) – with material related to the book and links to Darwen's seminar and lecture slides *
Andrew Warden
at LC Authorities with 1 catalogue record (1990 collection) {{DEFAULTSORT:Darwen, Hugh 1943 births Living people IBM employees Academics of the University of Warwick Contract bridge writers Place of birth missing (living people)