Michael Ralph Stonebraker was born on October 11,1943 and is a computer scientist specializing in database systems.
15 Facts About Michael Stonebraker
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Michael Stonebraker is 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.
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Michael Stonebraker is currently a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and an adjunct professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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Michael Stonebraker is known as an editor for the book Readings in Database Systems.
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Michael Stonebraker joined University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1971, and taught in the computer science department for twenty-nine years.
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Michael Stonebraker led an effort to commercialize the code, creating Illustra which was purchased by Informix.
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Informix acquired Illustra in 1996, and Michael Stonebraker became Informix's CTO, a position he held until September 2000.
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Michael Stonebraker became an adjunct professor at MIT in 2001, where he began another series of research projects and founded a number of companies.
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Michael Stonebraker co-founded StreamBase Systems in 2003 to commercialize the technology behind Aurora.
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In 2005, Michael Stonebraker co-founded Vertica to commercialize the technology behind C-Store.
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In 2006, Michael Stonebraker started the Morpheus project, along with researchers from the University of Florida.
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In 2009, Michael Stonebraker co-founded Goby, a local search company based on ideas from Morpheus, for people to explore new things to do in free time.
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In 2007, with researchers from Brown University, MIT, and Yale University, Michael Stonebraker started the H-Store project.
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In 2009, Michael Stonebraker co-founded, and then served as an adviser to, VoltDB a commercial startup based on ideas from the H-Store project.
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Michael Stonebraker founded Paradigm4 with Marilyn Matz, who became CEO.