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Michael Stonebraker

1943 - Today

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Michael Ralph Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943) is an American computer scientist specializing in database systems. Through a series of academic prototypes and commercial startups, Stonebraker's research and products are central to many relational databases. He is also the founder of many database companies, including Ingres Corporation, Illustra, Paradigm4, StreamBase Systems, Tamr, Vertica, VoltDB and Hopara, and served as chief technical officer of Informix. For his contributions to database research, Stonebraker received the 2014 Turing Award, often described as "the Nobel Prize for computing." Stonebraker's career can be broadly divided into two phases: his time at University of California, Berkeley when he focused on relational database management systems such as Ingres and Postgres, and, starting in 2001, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he developed more novel data management techniques such as C-Store, H-Store, SciDB and DBOS. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Stonebraker is the 149th most popular computer scientist (down from 135th in 2024), the 8,451st most popular biography from United States (down from 7,287th in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Michael Stonebraker ranks 149 out of 245. Before him are Demis Hassabis, Adam Osborne, Jack Dorsey, Phil Zimmermann, Robert Tarjan, and John L. Hennessy. After him are Jaron Lanier, Kateryna Yushchenko, Shafi Goldwasser, Raj Reddy, Bertrand Meyer, and Hal Abelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Michael Stonebraker ranks 538. Before him are Joan Van Ark, Toni Basil, Pat Barker, Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin, John Casper, and Giovanni Pettenella. After him are Gennadi Sosonko, William Chittick, David Alexandre Winter, Ron Geesin, Lucius Shepard, and Tony Trimmer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Stonebraker ranks 8,452 out of 20,380. Before him are Mandy Moore (1984), George Pataki (1945), Scott Weiland (1967), Katherine Neville (1945), and Mitzi Gaynor (1931). After him are Evan Stone (1964), James Stafford (1932), Erik King (1963), William Chittick (1943), William L. Marcy (1786), Julie Bowen (1970), and Jared Martin (1941).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Michael Stonebraker ranks 86. Before him are Anita Borg (1949), James Rumbaugh (1947), Jack Dorsey (1976), Phil Zimmermann (1954), Robert Tarjan (1948), and John L. Hennessy (1952). After him are Jaron Lanier (1960), Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Kent Beck (1961), Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931), Annie Easley (1933), and Henriette Avram (1919).

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