Phil Bernstein is a Principal Researcher in Microsoft Research. He
joined Microsoft in 1994 as a product architect and moved to MSR in
1998. Over the past 30 years, he has been a product architect at
Digital Equipment Corp., a professor at Harvard University and Wang
Institute of Graduate Studies, and a VP Software at Sequoia
Systems. During that time, he has published over 150 papers on the
theory and implementation of database systems, and two books on
transaction processing. The second edition of his book Principles of
Transaction Processing, with Eric Newcomer, was published in June. He
is an ACM Fellow, a winner of the SIGMOD Innovations Award, and a
member of the National Academy of Engineering and Washington State
Academy of Sciences.