Michael Stonebraker
Computer scientist
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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
Awards: Turing Award and IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Notable students: Joseph M. Hellerstein, Margo Seltzer, Marti Hearst, and more
Thesis: The Reduction of Large Scale Markov Models for Random Chains
