Date of Birth | Nationality | Residence | Education | Occupation |
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February 11, 1943 | American | Cambridge, Massachusetts | University of California, Berkeley | Database Management System Pioneer |
Michael Stonebraker is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who is widely recognized as a pioneer in the development of database management systems. He is the founder of several companies, including Ingres, Illustra, StreamBase, and VoltDB. He has also been a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1973.
Stonebraker has been awarded numerous awards for his work, including the Turing Award in 2014, the ACM Software System Award in 1992, and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2008. He has also been inducted into the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Stonebraker's research has focused on the development of database management systems, including the development of the Postgres database system. He has also worked on the development of object-relational database systems, stream processing systems, and data warehousing systems.
Michael Stonebraker was born on February 11, 1943 in San Francisco, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1965. He then went on to receive a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 1971.
Stonebraker began his career as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. He has also held positions at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
In 1979, Stonebraker founded Ingres Corporation, which developed the Ingres relational database management system. He then founded Illustra in 1994, which developed the object-relational database system Illustra. He also founded StreamBase Systems in 2003, which developed the stream processing system StreamBase. In 2009, he founded VoltDB, which developed the in-memory database system VoltDB.
Stonebraker has collaborated with numerous other computer scientists, including Jim Gray, David DeWitt, and David Maier. He has also been a mentor to many computer scientists, including David DeWitt, David Maier, and Michael Franklin.
Stonebraker is known for his quote, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Stonebraker has been criticized for his involvement in the development of proprietary software, which has been seen as a barrier to the development of open source software.
Stonebraker is also an avid sailor and has competed in several sailing races, including the Newport-Bermuda Race and the Marblehead-Halifax Race.
Stonebraker has also written several books, including "The End of an Era: Database Research in the 21st Century" and "Data on the Outside: Database Research for the Real World".