Michael Stonebraker

For the American football player, see Mike Stonebreaker.
Michael Stonebraker
Michael Stonebraker giving the 2015 Turing lecture
Born (1943-10-11) October 11, 1943 (age 81)
Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S.[5]
Alma materPrinceton University (BSE)
University of Michigan (MS, PhD)
Known forIngres, Postgres, Vertica, Streambase, Illustra, VoltDB, SciDB
SpouseBeth
AwardsIEEE John von Neumann Medal (2005)
ACM Turing Award (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisThe Reduction of Large Scale Markov Models for Random Chains
Doctoral advisorArch Waugh Naylor
Notable studentsJoseph M. Hellerstein
Clifford A. Lynch[1]
Margo Seltzer[1]
Dale Skeen[2]
Marti Hearst[3]
Leilani Battle[4]
Websitecsail.mit.edu/user/1547

Michael Ralph Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943[6]) 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 and VoltDB, 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."[7]

Stonebraker's career can be broadly divided into two phases: his time at University of California, Berkeley when he focused on relational database management systems such as Ingres and Postgres, and, starting in 2001, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he developed more novel data management techniques such as C-Store, H-Store, SciDB and DBOS.[8] Stonebraker is currently a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and an adjunct professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[9][10] He is also known as an editor for the book Readings in Database Systems.

  1. ^ a b "Ph.D. Dissertations | EECS at UC Berkeley". www2.eecs.berkeley.edu.
  2. ^ Michael Stonebraker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Nice: or what it was like to be Mike's student" (PDF).
  4. ^ Battle, Leilani Marie (2017). "Behavior-driven optimization techniques for scalable data exploration". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/111853. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  5. ^ "Michael Stonebraker - A.M. Turing Award Winner". Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  6. ^ "Contributors". IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (4): 562–564. Sep 1972. doi:10.1109/TSMC.1972.4309174.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference wins was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  9. ^ "Michael Stonebraker". www2.eecs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  10. ^ "Michael Stonebraker | MIT CSAIL". www.csail.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-16.