Bruce Lindsay 是关系数据库技术多个方面的公认专家，为分布式数据库管理系统技术、查询执行算法、数据库并行性和系统性能做出了贡献。他是IBM院士和ACM院士。
在加州大学伯克利分校获得博士学位后，他加入了位于加利福尼亚州圣何塞的IBM Almaden研究中心，参与了System R（第一个关系数据库管理系统原型）和R*（一个分布式关系数据库管理系统）的开发。他还参与了DRDA（远程数据库管理系统访问协议）的设计，并是Starburst（一个可扩展的关系数据库管理系统）的架构师。
在90年代，他领导了将Starburst技术移植到IBM DB2产品中，并为DB2数据库的许多方面做出了贡献。
- 1996年，他被任命为IBM院士.后从事数据库复制技术的开发。
- 2012年，他从IBM退休。
A recognized expert on many aspects of relational database technology, he has contributed to the technology of distributed DBMS, query execution algorithms, database parallelism, and system performance. He is an IBM Fellow, and an ACM Fellow. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, he joined IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California where he participated in the development of System R (the first Relational DBMS prototype) and R-star (a distributed RDBMS). He also worked on the design of DRDA (a remote DBMS access protocol) and was the architect of Starburst (an Extensible RDBMS). In the 90’s, he led the port of the Starburst technology into the IBM DB2 products and has contributed to many aspects of the DB2 database. He was appointed an IBM Fellow in 1996 and is currently engaged in development of database replication technologies.
