Stanley Zdonik ( ) is a

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specializing in

database management system In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases span ...

s. He is a tenured

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at Brown University. Zdonik has lived in the

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area his entire life. After completing two bachelor’s and two master's degrees at

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, he then earned a PhD in database management under Michael Hammer. In the mid-seventies, Zdonik worked on the Prophet data management system for pharmacologists at

Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc Raytheon BBN (originally Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.) is an American research and development company, based next to Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. In 1966, the Franklin Institute awarded the firm the Frank P. Bro ...

. After becoming a professor at Brown University during the early 1980s, Zdonik became a leading researcher in

object-oriented databases An object database or object-oriented database is a database management system in which information is represented in the form of objects as used in object-oriented programming. Object databases are different from relational databases which are ...

. He has over one hundred peer-reviewed papers in the database field and was named an

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in 2006. He has been involved in the development of several notable database projects with other researchers, including

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and Sam Madden. These projects include the Aurora and Borealis

stream processing In computer science, stream processing (also known as event stream processing, data stream processing, or distributed stream processing) is a programming paradigm which views data streams, or sequences of events in time, as the central input and o ...

engines, the

C-Store C-Store is a database management system (DBMS) based on a column-oriented DBMS developed by a team at Brown University, Brandeis University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts Boston including Michael Stone ...

column store Data orientation refers to how tabular data is represented in a linear memory model such as in-disk or in-memory.The two most common representations are column-oriented (columnar format) and row-oriented (row format). The choice of data orien ...

database, and the

H-Store H-Store is an experimental database management system (DBMS). It was designed for online transaction processing applications. H-Store was developed by a team at Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo ...

parallel, main memory

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system. He has also served as a member of the VLDB Board of Trustees 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 Vertica Systems is an analytic database management software company. Vertica was founded in 2005 by the database researcher Michael Stonebraker, with Andrew Palmer as the founding CEO. Ralph Breslauer and Christopher P. Lynch served as later ...

companies, as well as being a technical advisor for Attivio. Episode 2035 of Car Talk (approximately 35m) refers to his stint as an instructor in novice automobile maintenance.

Education

Zdonik has received a number of non-

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degrees during his career, all from MIT. * Ph.D., Computer Science, June 1983.

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* M.S., Computer Science, 1980. Massachusetts Institute of Technology * M.S., 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

References

External links

Personal web page

Brown Database Group home page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zdonik, Stanley Living people American computer scientists Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Database researchers MIT School of Engineering alumni Brown University faculty Year of birth missing (living people)