 All right. So I want to next bring up a man which I don't think needs an introduction. He has done something in his career as a professor that I envy, that I'm hoping to do. He is the professor who has actually tried to be personally fired by Larry Ellison, which should be on the top of your CV at all times. So David DeWitt was a professor at University of Wisconsin. He actually did great things with Gamma and Paradise. And now he's a technical fellow at Microsoft in Madison. This assumes I know how to run a Windows laptop. Yes. So I'm fortunate to have known Mike a really, really long time. And some of you can't believe this, that I've actually known Mike 44 years. So I arrived at Michigan in the fall of 1970. And in my very first graduate class was Mike Stonebreaker as the TA. And I remember at the time I had come from a small school in the east to not a Harvard or Princeton. I had a degree in chemistry. And I was really nervous for a semester graduate student. And then I met Mike. And I discovered even though I had only had a few computer science courses, I knew more about software than Mike did. So I knew it was going to be OK. So in 1971, Mike finished a PhD. It was not in database systems, even though there were database activities going on at Michigan at the time. It was in random Markov models of random chains or something like that. And at the time, when Mike was finishing, there was Gossip around the department about fights with his advisor. And I got to know his advisor really well because I sailed with his advisors for the rest of my graduate career at Michigan. And if you go to the genealogy pages, it doesn't appear that Mike actually got a graduate or Arch graduated any more students after Mike, even though he didn't retire for another 23 years. Now, Mike Cafferella disputes that fact. And there may have been one or two other students, but Arch and Mike did not get along, even though Arch was a really great guy. So how did I pick these events? I just sat down. I took a piece of yellow paper. I wrote out these things. They are not meant to be inclusive. So in 73, Mike, as we know, with Gene Long started the Ingress Project. And since he really didn't know much about software, this was a huge leap. And it was in some ways to pretend Mike's entire career. At every turn of events, Mike took a huge leap and changed our entire field. And had he and Pat, Pat Selinger's here, who was part of a team that started System R, they really led the entire field in an entirely different direction. So I didn't do anything. I was a computer architect as a grad student. I came to Wisconsin as a faculty member. I was told, teach a database class. And that's how I got into databases. And I used Ingress in my very first class, and there were a few bugs in that first version. We were running on with deck riders on PDP 1145s. And I discovered this TA of mine from a long time ago. It was the guy in charge of this project. So Mike and I reconnected in 76. Now, I really got introduced. Mike invited me. At that time, there was a series of conferences being held at Berkeley on distributed systems. And got invited to one of the early Berkeley workshops. Mike introduced me to a lot of the key figures of the field at the time. And I got to hear Mike talk about distributed Ingress. And I don't know how these scans worked. Oh, they worked okay. So these are actually real scans. They're not made up. I took out some of the old papers and got out my scanner and scanned them. So one of the things Mike talked about in this talk was he pontificated about the role of God in Distributed Ingress. Now, you think I'm kidding. If you look at that, this is a scan. Mike says, we will see the existence of God as a very fundamental question. So already, I'm this junior assistant professor. I go to this database conference and meet all the gods of the field at the time. And then there's this really tall guy talking about God in front of this group of people. And you should read the paper. If you don't have it, I'll send you a copy of the paper. Now, this is one of the things that Mike did that probably nobody in this room has ever read about or ever actually even heard of. In 79, long before Mike wrote about the kinds of distributed or parallel systems one could build, Mike actually had a small project called Muffin. And I won't tell you what that stands for. You can figure it out yourself. It's probably not polite. And that's the cover of the Muffin project. So it was by five years the first parallel shared nothing database system that was built. If you look into the paper, he's got these application cells which is where the applications connect and D cells which are like single instances of Ingress running. And so he by five years pre-dated the first work in shared nothing parallel database systems. At the time I was building a shared memory thing. I should have looked at what Mike was doing. I was doing the wrong thing. But Mike was really, really ahead of the curve on shared nothing database systems. Now, the other thing that you don't know about, sometimes Mike is viewed as a little harsh on people, but at the time I was really a, babe in the woods when it came to building database systems, maybe I still am. And I was trying to build a parallel database machine called Direct. And Mike made that system possible because Mike made the research. We reused a lot of pieces of Ingress code. Mike made a number of his full-time programmers including Bob Epstein and Eric Allman available to me to help with the project. And without Mike's support, there would have been no tenure for DeWitt. I would have never gotten that code running. I'd never built a database system before. And Mike really, not only has he acted as a mentor for many years, but his support during that period of my career was really, really, truly instrumental. 83, I got to go on sabbatical at Berkeley. We had a really amazing group of people there. Frank Olken, Randy Katz, Mike, Len Shapiro, David Wood is now an architect. And I did a really nice, we had a nice study group at Main Memory Database Paper. We did some really good work, came out, hybrid hash join and group commit algorithms. And it was really, it was an amazing experience for me to go sit at Berkeley and get hosted by Mike. 84 wasn't so good. So I remember, I published this paper on Wisconsin benchmark. And I remember still the day, I was sitting at my desk in our old building and Mike called and really yelled at me. And I stood up at attention because Mike was really upset that commercial ingress for this Picker query, one query out of like the whole batch was much worse than the Brittnley database machine and much worse than the university ingress. How could this possibly be right? And he really did yell at me. That was sort of like the only time in my career, except when I joined Microsoft. When I joined Microsoft, Mike also yelled at me. So, but Larry Ellison really learned the meaning of tenure because what Andy said was really true. Larry couldn't believe how bad the Oracle numbers were. And he called up the department chair at the time and tried very hard to get me fired. But this was the only time in the 44 years I've known Mike that he's actually yelled at me and really yelled at me. Now, for those of you that have been around the field for a long time, you know that our entire field, including Mike Carey, myself, Jeff Norton, everybody went on the OOD tour, except Mike. So, Mike crushed the rebellion with a famous quad chart. And for his daughters, Mike is, if you don't know Mike's talks, every one of Mike's talks includes a quad chart. In the old days, they used to be on the cellophane stuff. We did slides and Mike would draw them at the last minute. There's always an upper right-hand corner, okay? So we have simple data, complex data, no query and query. The rebellion was down in the lower right and Mike was in the upper right. So he basically crushed the rebellion with this one quad chart. Then he wrote a book, because he needed to have a book to explain the quad chart to the unwashed smashes. Then in 97, Mike uses the book and the quad chart to sell a luster. So first he crushes the rebellion, then he, with his quad chart, then he writes a book to explain the quad chart. Then he sells the company. As we know, Elustra was a very successful company. What you don't know is that two in the morning, Jim Gray was reading the filings, the SEC filings, calls me up and says, you can't believe how much Mike sold that company for. This is a true story. Now, in 2000, there was a project that Mike did called Project Sequoia, which was an attempt to apply database technology to earth science applications. And Mike and Jim and Jeff Dozier tried to explain to NASA why NASA might wanna use this for mission to planet earth. And I was actually on a NASA committee sort of evaluating alternatives. Needless to say, NASA didn't listen to these three distinguished people, and mission to planet earth was a bust for the most part. But it inspired Jim to go off and use SQL server to do Sloan's, so some good did come out of it in the end. Now, 2002, Mike Franklin, where's Mike Franklin? Oh, I thought I saw Mike here, oh good, I can pick on him. He hit the trifecta. He rejected, managed in one conference to reject papers by myself, Mike Snowbreaker and Jim Gray. And we were sitting around sort of bemoaning the direction Sigma had taken. And we did what every good academic, we did what every good academic does when their papers are rejected. We started our own conference. And that winter we held the first Sider conference, which has been a highly successful, very small venue conference that we run every other year at Asilomar in California. So that was 2002. Click. 2005, I got to go on another sabbatical with Mike. I'm always, Mike and I are always trying to find time to work together. And maybe they'll bury us side by side and we actually can work together. So I had a year at MIT. It was an amazing experience getting to work with everybody at Vertica and Mike. Truly really a wonderful experience. Very sad to leave. Two-body problem, back to Madison. 2008. Snowbreaker and DeWitt. And this was really, there's this map-reduced paper that came out and Mike and I were just incensed. And it really, we know it was a breakthrough in programming but those people had never read the literature. So Mike and I write a couple blog posts that Vertica gladly posts for us. And that was finally I got slashed on it. We both got slashed on it for being total idiots. We didn't know anything about anything. And it was really, somebody's collected those posts. They're posted somewhere on the web. We really were raked over the coals for that post. But then why are those map-reduced fanboys all building sequel, parallel sequel database systems today? That's really true. Nobody writes in map-reduced anymore. So I was really pleased when I even saw Google has a sequel database system now. So anyway, that was 2008. Present. So Mike is 70 and a half. You really wouldn't know it from looking at him. He really has had an unsurpassed impact on our field. And the main thing that he's done is he never has let the field be content polishing round balls. He's always taken these huge intellectual leaps, whether it's to go from Markov chains. Maybe that wasn't such a big leap. Who would want to continue, still be working on Markov chains, to building one of the first relational database systems and it must have been an amazing experience to be in competition with the IBM Almond and people in that. Then on to ADT Ingress and then Postgres and Alustra and then all the systems since then. So this is really, he's been maybe a foreign in the side to the field, but he really has had just really amazing impact and our field really owes a lot to him. As I said earlier, I'm here today because of the support he gave me as an untenured assistant professor and without that, my career would have gone nowhere. And I think a lot of people in this room would say the same thing. And I will say, and I will cry at this point, I'm an easy crier. We had a really good friend in Jim and I know if Jim were still alive today, Jim would be here celebrating Mike's career along with the rest of us. And this is a picture I never expect to see which is Mike sitting in a lazy boy with his feet up while remote control to say I'm watching TV. So thank you very much, Mike for everything.