Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology
for more than a quarter of a century. 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 Dr. Stonebraker was a professor of computer science for 25 years.
More recently at MIT., Dr. Stonebraker was a co-architect of the Aurora
stream processing en...
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Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology
for more than a quarter of a century. 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 Dr. Stonebraker was a professor of computer science for 25 years.
More recently at MIT., Dr. Stonebraker was a co-architect of the Aurora
stream processing engine as well as the C-Store high-performance
read-oriented database engine. He is the founder of four
venture-capital backed startups that have commercialized these
prototypes: Ingres Corporation, Illustra Information Technologies
(acquired by Informix Corporation), StreamBase Systems, and Vertica.
Professor Stonebraker is the author of scores of research papers on
database technology, operating systems and the architecture of system
software. He was awarded the 2005 IEEE John vonNeumann Medal as well as
the ACM System Software Award in 1992, for his work on INGRES.
Additionally, he was awarded the first annual Innovation award by the
ACM SIGMOD special interest group in 1994, and was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering in 1997. He is also an ACM Fellow. Dr.
Stonebraker earned a B.S.E.E. degree from Princeton University in 1965
and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1971.
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