Phil Bernstein

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/philbe/

Wrote a couple of books:

- Principles of Transaction Processing (2nd edition), coauthored with Eric Newcomer, was published in June 2009 by Morgan-Kauffman Publishers, a division of Elsevier.
- Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems, coauthored with Vassos Hadzilacos and Nathan Goodman