Best Practice Report

An Interview With The 2014 Turing Award Winner: Dr. Michael Stonebraker

A Serial DBMS Entrepreneur Looks At Big Data

July 21st, 2015
Michele Goetz, VP, Principal Analyst
Michele Goetz VP, Principal Analyst
Nasry Angel, null
Nasry Angel
Gene Leganza, null
Gene Leganza
With contributors:
Leslie Owens , Diane Lynch

Summary

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) honors individuals for "major contributions of lasting importance to computing" with its annual A.M. Turing Award, sometimes referred to as "the Nobel Prize of computing." Forrester caught up with the 2014 winner, Dr. Michael Stonebraker, at our Cambridge, Massachusetts, office and interviewed him about the data and innovation issues confronting today's enterprises. Stonebraker provides the perspective of a database guru equally at home in the higher reaches of academic pursuit and in the pragmatic concerns of real-world technology adoption.

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