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Richard's
passions for computers began in 1978 with a Commodore Pet 32k b
personal computer while he was a sophomore in high school. Two years
later, in 1980 he was a sophomore at Tulane University, and that
year began working in the computer industry. By '83 he had architected
and then written a complete real-time multi-tasking
operating system for the TANO Outpost for use in the ship, pipeline
and refinery industries, thus earning the moniker RT. (Written in
6809 assembler, it was hand-optimized.) In 1984, he joined
Digital Equipment Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, where he became
that offices key VMS Internals specialist. Having supported many
of Digital's largest Silicon Valley customers, he helped design
and was the VMS person among the team of 4 which founded a new service
business for Digital, Decsupport, which at one point in time represented
fully one quarter of DEC's total income.
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Looking
for a new venue, in 1989 Richard joined the leader in database
technology, Relational Technology Inc., later known as Ingres
Corp., as their in-house VMS expert. Richard immediately recognized
a new opportunity and founded a new service-support business which
survived until Computer Associates bought the company in '94.
Along
the way he also invented a new fault-tolerant database system
but was unable to bring it to market before the CA buyout. Richard
then became a consultant to the DBMS market, and in 1995 Mike
Stonebraker invited him to take on the technical lead role for
the NASA Earth Observing System/Distributed Information System
Alternative Architecture project known as BigSur.
Once
he understood the implications of the project for the future health
of the planet, Richard was sold on the idea, and took it on. His
team architected and implemented the BigSur paradigm for performing
Earth Science, and was responsible for a number of notable papers
helping lead the way in distributed database, distributed processing
and hierarchical storage management technologies. His research has
been oriented toward using computers to help researchers in other
scientific disciplines perform better science. This has led to new
research grants and collaborations, such as his role as co-investigator
on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory-led OceanESIP
project.
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Michael Stonebraker
Chairman,
Technology Council, Science Tools Corporation
Senior
Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, U.C. Berkeley
- retired 2000
Founder,
Illustra Corporation (bought by Informix, and more recently IBM
Corp)
Founder, Cohera Corporation
General Chairman and other substantive positions of SIGMOD 1982
to present
Member of Technical Advisory Committee for Citicorp, DB Software,
and Bull
A
more thorough biography (appears to have moved)
Mike@sciencetools.com
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Dr. Stonebraker has been Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California
at Berkeley, where he joined the faculty in 1971 and retired in
2000. He is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost experts
in database technology and is noted for his insight in operating
systems and expert systems. He is well known for his research
on relational and object-relational database systems and for the
several companies he founded to commercialize the results. These
include Ingres, Illustra (based on Postgres), and most recently,
Cohera.
Dr.
Stonebraker received a Bachelor of Science degree from Princeton
University and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees
from the University of Michigan. Dr. Stonebraker has held visiting
professorships at the Pontifico Universitade Catholique (PUC),
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the University of California, Santa Cruz;
and the University of Grenoble, France.
Dr.
Stonebraker is presently enjoying his recent retirement from UC
Berkeley on the east cost and serves as a Senior Lecturer for
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Angus MacDonald
Scientist,
Member of Technology Council, Science Tools Corporation
President, Carlvine Corporation, Bryan TX
Inventor at Large
Angus@ScienceTools.com
510-522-0280
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Hailing from Emsworth, Hampshire, England, somewhere near Portsmouth,
Dr. Angus MacDonald earned a Bachelor of Science, Physics, from
the University of Southampton, England. Dr. MacDonald crossed the
pond and earned a Masters in Physics, and then a doctorate in Engineering
Physics at the University of Virginia, in 1969. He then became a
Research Scientist, at Allied Chemical Corp., Morristown NJ, growing
laser crystals.
In
1974, Angus bought a 32' ketch and sailed to San Francisco. Venturing
into chemical hardening optics, he earned a patent for an innovation
in the manufacture of eyeglasses. His inventive side brought him
to design and build the equipment for the bond trading room for
Bank of America, and he went on to both run and maintain it. This
led to the creation of The Angus System, Inc., which built bond
trading rooms for major banks on the Pacific coast.
Since
then he's become involved with various ventures and enjoys all things
creative and putting his knowledge to good use. Dr. MacDonald presently
resides beside the estuary in Alameda, not far from the former site
of Ingres Corporation.
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