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Michael Stonebraker
Turning database research into influential systems including Ingres and Postgres.
Ingres · Postgres
- Born
- 11 October 1943
- Birthplace
- Milton Mills, United States
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Michael Stonebraker
Michael Stonebraker is an American computer scientist whose prototypes and companies helped shape modern data management. His work connected academic systems research with practical commercial databases.
Early life
New Hampshire
Grew up in Milton Mills.
Engineering education
Studied at Princeton and earned a doctorate at the University of Michigan.
Career
- 1971
Berkeley
Joined the faculty and began database research.
- 1970s–1980s
Ingres and Postgres
Led successive projects exploring relational and extensible databases.
- 2001 onwards
MIT
Developed specialised approaches to storing and processing data.
- 2014
Turing Award
Recognised for contributions to modern database systems.
Contributions
Ingres
An early working relational database system.
Postgres
Extensible database research that preceded PostgreSQL.
C-Store
Column-oriented storage research for analytical workloads.
Beyond computing
Cycling
Made a cross-country bicycle journey with his wife in 1988.
Entrepreneurship
Founded multiple companies to develop research ideas into usable products.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Biography and contributions ↗Photo: David.Monniaux. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
