Michael Stonebraker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michael Stonebraker

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1943

Place of Birth: Milton, New Hampshire, United States

Profession: computer scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Michael Ralph Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943) is a computer scientist specializing in database research. Through a series of academic prototypes and commercial startups, Stonebraker's research and products are central to many relational database systems.
He is also the founder of many database companies, including Ingres Corporation, Illustra, Paradigm4, StreamBase Systems, Tamr, Vertica and VoltDB, and served as chief technical officer of Informix.
He is also an editor for the book Readings in Database Systems. 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 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he developed more novel data management techniques such as C-Store, H-Store and SciDB.
Major prizes include the Turing Award in 2014.
Stonebraker is currently a Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley and an adjunct professor at MIT.