Michael Stonebraker
Computer scientist
Michael Ralph Stonebraker is a 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. Wikipedia
Born: 1943 (age 80 years), Newburyport, MA
Education: University of Michigan (1971), Princeton University (1965), and The Governor's Academy
Notable students: Joseph M. Hellerstein; Clifford A. Lynch; Margo Seltzer; Dale Skeen; Marti Hearst; Leilani Battle
Awards: Turing Award and IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Thesis: The Reduction of Large Scale Markov Models for Random Chains