1992 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
Michael Stonebraker
Dr. Stonebraker is Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, where
he joined the faculty in 1971. He is widely recognized as one of the
world's foremost experts in database technology and is noted for his
insight in operating systems and expert systems.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Princeton University
and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the
University of Michigan. Dr. Stonebraker has held visiting
professorships at the Pontifico Universitade Catholique (PUC), Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil; the University of California, Santa Cruz; and the
University of Grenoble, France.
Dr. Stonebraker founded Ingres Corp. in 1980 and served on the
company's board of directors until 1993. (Ingres Corp. was purchased
by Computer Associates in 1994.) INGRES, the company's primary
product, was a commercialization of Dr. Stonebraker's INGRES research
project into relational database management systems (RDBMS) at
Berkeley. Ingres Corp. has been widely recognized as a leader in
RDBMS technology.
More recently, Dr. Stonebraker has managed another research
project known as POSTGRES, one of the most advanced such projects
ever undertaken on the Berkeley campus. In August 1992, Dr.
Stonebraker co-founded Illustra Information Technologies, Inc. in
order to commercialize his research in object-relational database
technology. He is a member of the company's board of directors and
serves as its Chief Technology Officer.
Dr. Stonebraker is currently focusing on DBMS support for
visualization environments and on next-generation distributed DBMSs.
In addition, he leads a project which is developing alternative data
management strategies for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS).
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