Name: Keynote: The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box (Where Did Postgres Come From?)
Start: 2019-06-26T08:30:00-0400
End: 2019-06-26T09:45:00-0400

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Keynote: The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box (Where Did Postgres Come From?)

This Turing Award talk intermixes a bicycle ride across America during the summer of 1988 with the design, construction and commercialization of Postgres during the late 80’s and early ‘90’s. Striking parallels are observed, leading to a discussion of what it takes to build a new DBMS. Also, indicated are the roles that perseverance and serendipity played in both endeavors.

Speakers

Dr. Michael Stonebraker

Chief Technology Officer of Paradigm4 and Tamr, Inc., Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at M.I.T and co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center

Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology for more than forty years. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker... Read More →

Wednesday June 26, 2019 8:30am - 9:45am EDT
Grand Ballroom: General Session Hall The Sheraton Boston Hotel, 39 Dalton St, Boston, MA, 02199

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Postgres Vision 2019

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Dr. Michael Stonebraker