Dr. Michael Stonebraker
Professor, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Professor, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Michael Stonebraker has been a pioneer of data base research and technology for more than 40 years. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where he was a Professor of Computer Science for 25 years. More recently at MIT he was a co-architect of the C-Store column-oriented DBMS, the H-Store transaction processing engine, the SciDB array DBMS, the Data Tamer data curation system, and the DBOS operating system. Michael was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 and was awarded the IEEE John Von Neumann award in 2005 and the 2014 Turing Award.