Michael Stonebraker 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture

Michael Stonebraker has made fundamental contributions to database systems, which are one of the critical applications of computers today and contain much of the world's important data. He is the inventor of many concepts that were crucial to making databases a reality and that are used in almost all modern database systems. His work on Ingres introduced the notion of query modification, used for integrity constraints and views. His later work on Postgres introduced the object-relational model, effectively merging databases with abstract data types while keeping the database separate from the programming language. Stonebraker's implementations of Ingres and Postgres demonstrated how to engineer database systems that support these concepts; he released these systems as open software, which allowed their widespread adoption and their code bases have been incorporated into many modern database systems. Since the pathbreaking work on Ingres and Postgres, Stonebraker has continued to be a thought leader in the database community and has had a number of other influential ideas including implementation techniques for column stores and scientific databases and for supporting on-line transaction processing and stream processing.
BACKGROUND
Michael Stonebraker is adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) where he is also co-founder and co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Big Data. Prior to MIT, Stonebraker was professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley for 29 years. A graduate of Princeton University, Stonebraker earned his master's degree and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Stonebraker received the Software System award with Gerald Held and Eugene Wong for the development of Ingres (IBM’s System R was also recognized). He was the recipient of the inaugural SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, and received the IEEE John von Neumann Medal. Stonebraker is an ACM Fellow and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Read more at www.acm.org/turing-lecture-sto... .

[@paa5497]

A few years ago, I went on safari to the Serengeti and one stop was the remote eastern Serengiti outpost Namiri Plains that had just opened the prior year. At sundowners, I was talking with a couple of young ladies who were also guests at Namiri Plains and in our conversation, the women mentioned in passing that their dad was the "King of databases". I was skeptical but didn't challenge them. Coincidentally, their dad was seated next to me at dinner. I asked him what he did and he said he was an adjunct professor. I shared what I did and he showed lot of interest in what I did. So while the rest of the communal table - in remote Namiri Plains - were talking about the wildlife they saw that day, the 2 of us were talking about data and algorithms. I was doing a lot of the talking, telling this adjunct professor about the real world. But his interjections and questions in the first 10 minutes made me think that I should perhaps be listening to this person rather than talking. So I spent the next 10 minutes asking questions about what he did and after listening for the next 10 minutes, I was deeply ashamed about my talking most of the first 10 minutes. At the end of dinner, I asked if I could have his business card; he told me that he was on vacation and did not carry a business card, but (once, I reached a place with internet access) I could google his name, Michael Stonebraker.

[@nathanmartinez2630]

wow; nice!

[@mychannel8116]

Amazing lecture. The way he connected the dots by explaining his career and the bike ride side by side to give us the perspective is fantastic. Thanks Michael for inspiring us.

[@austinreynolds2554]

What can I say? I'm inspired!

[@cjf12harry]

Wonderful talk.

[@biaozhang1643]

make it happen👍