Michael Stonebraker

Michael Stonebraker is a prominent computer scientist known for his significant contributions to the fields of database management systems (DBMS) and data integration. He is a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has been involved in the development of several influential database systems, including: 1. **Ingres**: One of the first relational database systems, developed in the 1970s at Berkeley, which laid foundational concepts for later SQL databases.