Professional Activities

• Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (2001-2007)
• Chair of the ACM Publication Board (2000-2001)
• Chair of ACM ACM SIGMOD (1997-2001) and member of its Advisory Board (2001-2010)
• Served on ACM Council (2000-2001) and SIG Governing Board Executive Committee (1998-1999)
• Co-chair (with David S. Wise) of the ACM History Committee (2004-2008)
• Americas Program Committee Chair for the 2001 VLDB Conference
• Program Committee Chair for the 1994 SIGMOD Conference
• Program Committee Chair for the DARPA/NSF International Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal Databases, Arlington, TX, June 1993
• Associate Editor of
  • Springer Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2007-present)
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE, 1995-1999)
  • International Journal on Very Large Databases (VLDBJ, 1996-2003)
  • ACM Ubiquity (2012-2017)
  • ACM Computing Classification System (2010)
  • ACM SIGMOD Digital Review (1999-2007)
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS 1992-2001)
• Chair (2020) and Member (2017-2019) of the ACM Distinguished Service Award Committee
• Chair (2012) and Member (2009-2011) of the Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award Committee
• Chair of the 2012 Ten-Year VLDB Best Paper Award Committee
• Member of the steering committees for
  • Rebooting Computing Summit, San Francisco, CA, January 2009
  • VLDB International Workshop on Temporal Databases, Zurich, Switzerland, September 1995
  • DARPA/NSF International Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal Databases, Arlington, TX, June 1993
  • Vice General Chair of 2012 SIGMOD Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 2012
• Served on the program committees of
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE): 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2005./li>
  • ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD): 2009, 2007, 2006, 2004, 1995, 1993
  • International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB): 2012, 2010, 2005, 1999, 1995, 1994
  • International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT): 2012
  • Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE): 1998
  • International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), Pune, Maharashtra India, December 2000
  • Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT): 1995
  • International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER): 2011, 2010
  • International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD): 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2003
  • International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME): 2013, 2012, 2008, 2006
  • International Symposium on Environments and Tools for Ada, Washington, D.C., 1992
  • International Conference on Semantics of a Networked World, organized by IFIP WG 2.6, co-located with EDBT'06
  • Dagstuhl Seminar on Temporal Databases, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, June 1997
  • International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database Management (STDBM), 2006, 2004

More details may be found on Rick's curriculum vitae.