Stanley Zdonik
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| Born | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Brown University |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Hammer |
| Known for | Encore-Ob/Server, C-Store, Aurora/Borealis, H-Store |
Stanley Zdonik is a computer scientist specializing in database management systems. He is currently a tenured professor of computer science at Brown University. Zdonik has lived in the Boston area his entire life. After completing a two bachelors and two master's degrees at MIT, he then earned a PhD in database management under Michael Hammer.[1]
In the mid-seventies, Dr. Zdonik worked on the Prophet data management system for pharmacologists at Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. After becoming a professor at Brown University during the early 1980s, Zdonik became a leading researcher in object-oriented databases.[2] He has over one hundred peer-reviewed papers in the database field[3] and was named an ACM Fellow in 2006.[4] More recently, he has been involved in the development of several notable database projects with other well-known researchers, such as Michael Stonebraker and Sam Madden. These projects include the Aurora and Borealis stream processing engines, the C-Store column store database, and the H-Store parallel, main memory OLTP system. He has also served as a member of the VLDB Board of Trustees [5] and has been the general chair for several major database conferences.
Outside of academia, Zdonik is a co-founder for both the StreamBase and Vertica companies, as well as being a technical advisor for Attivio.
[edit] Bluegrass
Zdonik is also an avid bluegrass mandolin musician and aficionado. He is currently the president of the International Bluegrass Music Association and the founder of the Boston Bluegrass Union.[6]
[edit] Education
Prof. Zdonik has received a remarkable number of non-honorary degrees during his career, all from MIT.[7]
- Ph.D., Computer Science, June 1983. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- M.S., Computer Science, 1980. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- E.E., Electrical Engineering, 1980. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- B.S., Computer Science, 1970. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1970. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[edit] References
- ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project". http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=77153. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
- ^ Zdonik, Stanley B; David Maier (1990). Readings in object-oriented database systems. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc.. ISBN 0-55860-000-0.
- ^ "DBLP: Stanley B. Zdonik". 2010. http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/z/Zdonik:Stanley_B=.html. Retrieved November 24, 2010.
- ^ "ACM Fellows - 2006". 2006. http://fellows.acm.org/homepage.cfm?year=2006. Retrieved November 24, 2001.
- ^ "VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees". 2007. http://www.vldb.org/conf/2007/frontmatter/endowment.pdf. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
- ^ "International Bluegrass Music Association - Board of Directors". 2008. http://www.ibma.org/about.ibma/leadership.asp. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
- ^ "Brown University Researcher Profile". 2005. http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=1106970175&r=1. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
