Michael Stonebraker

Dr. Michael 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 Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty-five years. More recently at M.I.T. he was a co-architect of the C-Store column-oriented DBMS, the H-Store OLTP DBMS, the SciDB array DBMS, the Data Tamer integration engine and the Kyrix visualization system. He is the founder of nine venture-capital backed startups, which commercialized these prototypes. Presently he serves as Chief Technology Officer of Hopara which is commercializing the Kyrix prototype.

Professor Stonebraker is the author of scores of research papers on database technology, operating systems and the architecture of system software services. He was awarded the ACM System Software Award in 1992, for his work on INGRES. Additionally, he was awarded ACM Software Systems Award in 1988 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997. He was awarded the IEEE John Von Neumann prize in 2005 and the ACM Turing Award in 2014. He is presently an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at M.I.T, where he is working on a variety of future-generation data-oriented projects.