Michael Stonebraker

Michael Stonebraker is an American computer scientist renowned for pioneering relational database management systems, including INGRES, POSTGRES, and numerous commercial ventures like Ingres Corporation, Vertica, and Tamr. He served as a professor at UC Berkeley for decades, developing key prototypes, and later as adjunct professor at MIT, focusing on advanced data management techniques. For his contributions, he received the 2014 Turing Award, often called the 'Nobel Prize of Computing.'[1][2][3]