Michael Stonebraker
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Michael Stonebraker giving the 2015 Turing lecture
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| Born |
October 11, 1943 Milton, New Hampshire |
| Institutions |
University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University, University of Michigan |
| Thesis | The Reduction of Large Scale Markov Models for Random Chains (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arch Waugh Naylor |
| Notable students |
Diane Greene Joseph M. Hellerstein Clifford A. Lynch Margo Seltzer Dale Skeen |
| Known for | Ingres, Postgres, Vertica, Streambase, Illustra, VoltDB, SciDB |
| Notable awards |
IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2005) ACM Turing Award (2014) |
| Spouse | Beth |
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Michael Ralph Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943) is a computer scientist specializing in database research. Through a series of academic prototypes and commercial startups, Stonebraker's research and products are central to many relational database systems on the market today. He is also the founder of a number of database companies, including Ingres, Illustra, Cohera, StreamBase Systems, Vertica, VoltDB, Tamr and Paradigm4. He was previously the chief technical officer (CTO) of Informix. He is also an editor for the book Readings in Database Systems.
Stonebraker earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1965 and his master's degree and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1967 and 1971, respectively. He has received several awards, including the IEEE John von Neumann Medal and the first SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 1997 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In March 2015 it was announced he won the 2014 ACM Turing Award. In September 2015, he won the 2015 Commonwealth Award, chosen by council members of MassTLC.
Michael Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley, for twenty-nine years, where he developed the Ingres and Postgres relational database systems. He is currently an adjunct professor at MIT, where he has been involved in the development of the Aurora,C-Store, H-Store, Morpheus, and SciDB systems.
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