Dr. Mike Stonebraker, Co-Founder & CTO

 
Dr. Mike Stonebraker has been a pioneer of data base research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty five years. More recently at M.I.T. he was a co-architect of the Aurora/Borealis stream processing engine, the C-Store column-oriented DBMS, and the H-Store transaction processing engine. Currently, he is working on science-oriented DBMSs and search engines for accessing the deep web. He is the founder of six venture-capital backed startups, which commercialized these prototypes. Presently he is also a co-founder of Vertica Systems, SciDB and Goby Corporation.

Professor Stonebraker is the author of scores of research papers on data base technology, operating systems and the architecture of system software services. He was awarded the IEEE John Von Neumann award in 2005, and is presently an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at M.I.T. Mike Stonebraker was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997, and was awarded the first annual Innovation award by the ACM SIGMOD special interest group in 1994. He was awarded the ACM System Software Award in 1992, for his work on INGRES.