Philip Alan Bernstein is a

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (a ...

specializing in

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases ...

research in the Database Group of

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. Bernstein is also an affiliate professor at the

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and frequent committee member or chair of conferences such as VLDB and SIGMOD. He won the

SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award The ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award is a lifetime research achievement award given by the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data, at its yearly flagship conference (also called SIGMOD). According to its homepage, it is given " ...

in 1994,1994 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
and in 2011 with Jayant Madhavan and Erhard Rahm the VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award for their VLDB 2001 paper "Generic Schema Matching with Cupid". Bernstein was elected a member of the

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for contributions to transaction-processing and database systems. He is also an elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.ACM Fellows

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. Accessed June 2011. Election citation: "For pioneering work in distributed query optimization, distributed databases, distributed transaction processing, metadata management, and schema integration." He is a charter member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences (2008) and served on their board of directors from 2012 to 2018.

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Phil Bernstein MSR page

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