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Michael Stonebraker, an Uncommon card
Michael Ralph Stonebraker is an American computer scientist specializing in database systems.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 101
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 40,000
Power 101 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Through a series of academic prototypes and commercial startups, Stonebraker's research and products are central to many relational databases.
- He is also the founder of many database companies, including Ingres Corporation, Illustra, Paradigm4, StreamBase Systems, Tamr, Vertica, VoltDB and Hopara, and served as chief technical officer of Informix.
- For his contributions to database research, Stonebraker received the 2014 Turing Award, often described as "the Nobel Prize for computing." Stonebraker's career can be broadly divided into two phases: his time at University of California, Berkeley when he focused on relational database management systems such as Ingres and Postgres, and, starting in 2001, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Michael Stonebraker article was read about 40,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Michael Stonebraker (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : David.Monniaux, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.