Michael Stonebraker | |
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![]() Michael Stonebraker giving the 2015 Turing lecture | |
Born | |
Alma mater | Princeton University, University of Michigan |
Known for | Ingres, Postgres, Vertica, Streambase, Illustra, VoltDB, SciDB |
Spouse | Beth |
Awards | IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2005) ACM Turing Award (2014) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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[2] |
Website | csail |
Michael Ralph Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943[3]) is an American computer scientist.
He is 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. He is also an editor for the book Readings in Database Systems.[4][5]