David Lomet is a senior researcher and manager of the Database Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA since 1995. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked six years at Digital's Cambridge Research Lab (CRL), after having spent two years work in Digital's database product group. Earlier, he was a professor of Information Technology at the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies. He began his career as a programmer at IBM, later becoming a research staff member at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lomet has done research and product development in architecture, programming languages, and distributed systems. He is best known for his work in database systems. He is one of the inventors of the transaction concept. His work has focused on access methods, concurrency control, and recovery. He is an author of over 60 papers, and holds over 20 patents. He has twice been author of SIGMOD "best papers". Dr. Lomet has served on many program committees, including SIGMOD, PODS, VLDB, ICDE, and EDBT. He was FODO'93 program chair, ICDE'2000 program co-chair, and ICDE'2001 conference co-chair. He is editor-in-chief of the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin and an editor of ACM TODS, the VLDB Journal, the SIGMOD Anthology, and the Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases. He is a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE, and has received IEEE Golden Core, Outstanding Contribution, and Meritorious Service Awards.