Stanley Zdonik

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

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| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts

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| field = Computer Science

| work_institution = Brown University

| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| doctoral_advisor = Michael Hammer

| notable_students = Andy Pavlo

| known_for = Encore-Ob/Server, C-Store, Aurora/Borealis, H-Store

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Stanley Zdonik ({{IPAc-en|z|ə|ˈ|d|ɒ|n|ɪ|k}} {{Respell|zə|DON|ik}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzwjeBkuelU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/tzwjeBkuelU |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=3 - John Savage 50th - Larry Harper "The Complexity of Complexity"|website=YouTube |date=13 June 2017 |accessdate=21 August 2019}}{{cbignore}}) is a computer scientist specializing in database management systems. He is a tenured professor of computer science at Brown University. Zdonik has lived in the Boston area his entire life. After completing two bachelor’s and two master's degrees at MIT, he then earned a PhD in database management under Michael Hammer.{{MathGenealogy|98359}}

In the mid-seventies, 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.{{cite book |last= Zdonik |first= Stanley B |author2= David Maier |author2-link= David Maier |title= Readings in object-oriented database systems |publisher= Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. |year= 1990 |isbn= 1-558-60000-0 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/readingsinobject00maie }} He has over one hundred peer-reviewed papers in the database field{{DBLP|name=Stanley B. Zdonik}} and was named an ACM Fellow in 2006.{{cite web | url = http://fellows.acm.org/homepage.cfm?year=2006 | title = ACM Fellows - 2006 | accessdate = November 24, 2001 | year = 2006}} He has been involved in the development of several notable database projects with other researchers, including 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 {{cite web | url = http://www.vldb.org/conf/2007/frontmatter/endowment.pdf | title = VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees | accessdate = January 30, 2009 | year = 2007 }} 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. Episode 2035 of Car Talk (approximately 35m) refers to his stint as an instructor in novice automobile maintenance.