Phil Bernstein

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

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| fields = Computer science

| workplaces = Microsoft Research

| alma_mater = University of Toronto

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| doctoral_advisor = Dennis Tsichritzis

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Philip A. Bernstein is a computer scientist specializing in database research in the Database Group of Microsoft Research. Bernstein is also an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and frequent committee member or chair of conferences such as VLDB and SIGMOD. He won the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 1994,[http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/award-people/philip-bernstein 1994 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118084525/http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/award-people/philip-bernstein |date=2011-11-18 }} 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".[http://www.vldb.org/2011/?q=node/31 VLDB 2011 Detailed Program]

Bernstein was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to transaction-processing and database systems.[http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/nae2003/ Bernstein, Smith Elected to NAE], Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington. Accessed June 10, 2011 He is also an elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1334671&srt=alpha&alpha=B ACM Fellows], Association for Computing Machinery. 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.