Dr. Michael Stonebraker, who in 2009 co-founded in-memory database company VoltDB, was awarded the 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems. Dr. Stonebraker has conducted research on database technologies for more than 40 years, leading to numerous innovations in fast data, streaming data and in-memory databases. With VoltDB, he realized the full potential of tapping streaming data with in-memory transactional database technology that can handle data's speed and volume while delivering real-time analytics and decision making. Dr. Stonebraker is an adjunct professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL). He is also co-founder and co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Big Data, which is based at MIT CSAIL.