Philip M. Lewis

Rank/Position Title:

Professor

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~pml

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

1987, Professor and Chair

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

• 2003: Symposium on Engineering Ethics, Stony Brook University
• 2002: Cornell University Computer Science Department: Review of Computer Science Theoretical Research: Presented paper

Other related computing experience:

• 1956-1959 Assistant Professor in EE, M.I.T. 1956--1959
• 1959-1987 Researcher and Manager of Computer Science Research, G.E.Research Lab
• 1961-1987 Adjunct Professor, R.P.I.

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

• University: Committee on Non-Tenured Faculty
• College: Executive Committee
• College: Committee on Academic Standards and Appeals
• Department: Undergraduate Committee
• Department: Library Committee

Principal publications of the last five years.

• M. Kifer, A. Bernstein, P. Lewis, "Databases: An Applications Oriented Approach (Introductory Version) Second Edition, 2005
• P. Lewis, A. Bernstein, M. Kifer, "Databases and Transaction Processing: An Applications Oriented Approach" Addison Wesley, 2002
• A. Bernstein, P. Lewis, and S. Lu, ``Semantic Conditions for Correctness at Different Isolation Levels'', 16th Int'l Conf. on Data Engineering, San Diego, CA, Feb., 2000.
• A. Bernstein, D. Gerstl, and P. Lewis, ``Concurrency Control for Step-Decomposed Transactions'', Information Systems, vol 24, no 8. pp 673-698, 1999.
• A. Bernstein, D. Gerstl, P. Lewis, and S. Lu, ``Using Transaction Semantics to Increase Performance'', 8th Int'l Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems, Pacific Grove, CA, Sept., 1999.

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

2002: Sabbatical in China in Nanjing Institute of Meteorology: Taught course and interacted with students and faculty

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

ACM, IEEE, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu

Honors and awards:

• 1999: Fellow ACM
• 1979: Fellow IEEE
• 1991: Who's Who in America
• 1977: General Electric Coolidge Fellow

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term

Academic advising:

All ISE students

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

• Research on Web Services partially funded by Reuters
• Author of textbook on Databases (writing second edition)