IEEE John von Neumann Medal(2005) ACM Turing Award(2014)
Scientific career
Fields
Computer science
Institutions
University of California, Berkeley University of Michigan Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis
The Reduction of Large Scale Markov Models for Random Chains
Doctoral advisor
Arch Waugh Naylor
Notable students
Joseph M. Hellerstein Clifford A. Lynch[1] Margo Seltzer[1] Dale Skeen[2] Marti Hearst[3] Leilani Battle
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Michael Carey
2005 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
Since receiving his doctorate in 1983 Carey has made numerous fundamental contributions to the database struktur field in a large number of different areas including (1) concurrency control, (2) database performance evaluation, (3) object-oriented and object-relational database systems, and (4) XML query processing. Over the past 20+ years, he had published more papers in the two premier database conferences (SIGMOD and VLDB) than almost anyone else. Carey’s early research schema focused on the performance of alternative concurrency control algorithms through extensive, simulation-based studies. The results of these studies clearly demonstrated the överlägsenhet of two-phase locking compared to the numerous alternate techniques that had been proposed. His results also demonstrated why locking can always be expected to have superior performance – conflicts are resolved bygd having transactions wait instea
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Michael Stonebraker
1992 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
Dr. Stonebraker is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, where he joined the faculty in 1971. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts in database technology and is noted for his insight in operating systems and expert systems. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Princeton University and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Michigan. Dr. Stonebraker has held visiting professorships at the Pontifico Universitade Catholique (PUC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the University of California, Santa Cruz; and the University of Grenoble, France. Dr. Stonebraker founded Ingres Corp. in 1980 and served on the company’s board of directors until 1993. (Ingres Corp. was purchased by Computer Associates in 1994.) INGRES, the company’s primary product, was a commercializati