MIT adjunct professor Michael Stonebraker co-founded Vertica
Systems, and other startups, that have helped improve database management.
It’s been said that MIT adjunct professor of computer
science Michael Stonebraker is a pioneer of modern database software.
Through a series of academic projects and startups, starting
in the 1970s, he’s brought to market technology that still drives much of the
commercial database management system (DBMS) software available today — such as
that released by Microsoft, IBM and others.