Biography
Michael Ralph Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943 [ 6 ] ) 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." [ 7 ] 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 . [ 8 ] Stonebraker is currently a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and an adjunct professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] He is also known as an editor for the book Readings in Database Systems . Stonebraker grew up in Milton Mills, New Hampshire . [ 11 ] He earned his B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1965, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1967 and 1971 [ 12 ] respectively. His awards include the IEEE John von Neumann Medal and the first SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery . [ 13 ] In 1997, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the development and commercialization of relational and object-relational database systems. In March 2015 it was announced he won the 2014 ACM Turing Award . [ 7 ] In September 2015, he won the 2015 Commonwealth Award, chosen by council members of MassT Education: Princeton University BS University of Michigan MS PhD Award Citation: IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2005) ACM Turing Award (2014)
About the Turing Award
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."
Quick Facts
- Award: ACM A.M. Turing Award
- Added: 2026-02-07
- Source: Wikipedia
- Prize: $1,000,000 (USD)
- Presented by: ACM
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Notable Winners
- Donald Knuth (1974)
- Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
- Geoffrey Hinton (2018)
- Yoshua Bengio (2018)
- Yann LeCun (2018)