Students
In addition to his contributions to academia and industry, Stonebraker has trained more than 30 students who have themselves contributed significantly to academia and industry. Notable students include:
- Michael J. Carey (faculty at UC Irvine, formerly at U. Wisconsin Madison, NAE Member and ACM Fellow),
- Robert Epstein (founder and former VP of Engineering of Sybase)
- Diane Greene (co-founder and former CEO of VMWare)
- Paula Hawthorn (founder of Britton-Lee, formerly VP of Engineering of Informix)
- Gerald Held (former VP of Engineering of Oracle)
- Joseph M. Hellerstein (faculty at UC Berkeley)
- Anant Jhingran (VP and CTO for IBM's Information Management Division)
- Curt Kolovson (Sr. Staff Research Scientist at VMware)
- Clifford A. Lynch (executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information)
- Mike Olson, former CEO of Sleepycat Software and current CEO of Cloudera
- Margo Seltzer (Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, founder and former CTO of Sleepycat)
- Dale Skeen (founder of Tibco, founder and CEO of Vitria)
- Daniel Abadi, (co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hadapt)
- Marti Hearst (Professor at UC Berkeley)
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Famous quotes containing the word students:
“A complacent old Don of Divinity
Used to boast of his daughter’s virginity:
“They must have been dawdlin’,
The students of Magdalen—
It couldn’t have happened at Trinity.””
—Anonymous.
“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)