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Michael Stonebraker

Michael Ralph Stonebraker is an American computer scientist specializing in database systems

1943 – presentU.S.AContribution: 1982

Introduction

Michael Stonebraker (born 1943) is an American computer scientist and database technology pioneer. He has made significant contributions to the field of database management systems, including the development of INGRES, Postgres, and VoltDB. Stonebraker's work has greatly influenced the design and functionality of modern database systems, earning him numerous awards and honors.

Key Achievement

Revolutionized the field of database management systems (DBMSs) and founded multiple successful database companies

Biography

Michael Ralph Stonebraker is an American computer scientist specializing in database systems. Through a series of academic prototypes and commercial startups, Stonebraker's research and products are central to many relational databases. He is also the founder of many database companies, including Ingres Corporation, Illustra, Paradigm4, StreamBase Systems, Tamr, Vertica, VoltDB and Hopara, and served as chief technical officer of Informix. For his contributions to database research, Stonebraker received the 2014 Turing Award, often described as "the Nobel Prize for computing."

Notable Works

Ingres

Other

Did You Know?

Stonebraker is currently a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and an adjunct professor emeritus at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
He is also known as an editor for the book Readings in Database Systems.