His creativity is amazing: founder of a number of database companies, including Ingres, Illustra, Cohera, StreamBase Systems, Vertica, VoltDB, and Paradigm4...a

His creativity is amazing: founder of a number of database companies, including Ingres, Illustra, Cohera, StreamBase Systems, Vertica, VoltDB, and Paradigm4...at MIT, where he has been involved in the development of the Aurora, C-Store, H-Store, Morpheus, and SciDB systems [1] And his students: -Daniel Abadi (co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hadapt) -Michael J. Carey (faculty at UC Irvine, formerly at U. Wisconsin Madison, NAE Member and ACM Fellow) -Robert Epstein (founder and former VP of Engineering of Sybase) -Diane Greene (co-founder and former CEO of VMWare) -Paula Hawthorn (founder of Britton-Lee, formerly VP of Engineering of Informix) -Marti Hearst (Professor at UC Berkeley) -Gerald Held (former VP of Engineering of Oracle) -Joseph M. Hellerstein (faculty at UC Berkeley) -Anant Jhingran (VP and CTO for IBM's Information Management Division) -Curt Kolovson (Sr. Staff Research Scientist at VMware) -Clifford A. Lynch (executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information) -Mike Olson (former CEO of Sleepycat Software and founding CEO of Cloudera) -Margo Seltzer (Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, founder and former CTO of Sleepycat Software) -Dale Skeen (founder of Tibco, founder and CEO of Vitria) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker