Prof. Michael Stonebraker

Stonebraker specializes in database management systems and data integration, and has been a pioneer of database research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. He is the author of scores of papers in this area. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES, and the federated data system, Mariposa; and has started a half-dozen start-up companies to commercialize these database technologies and, more recently, Big Data technologies (Vertica, VoltDB, Paradigm4). He was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.