Rick is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona. He joined the Computer Science Department in 1989. He has written or edited six books as well as many journal and conference papers see his DBLP entry, his ACM author page, and his complete list of publications, including electronic versions of almost all papers. He is an ACM Fellow. Rick is a member of the Advisory Board of ACM SIGMOD and of the ACM History Committee. He has chaired the ACM Publications Board and the ACM History Committee and has served on ACM Council. He was EditorinChief of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems from 2001 to 2007 and has served previously as Associate Editor of the International Journal on Very Large Databases and the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He chaired the Americas program committee for the 2001 VLDB Conference and the program committees for the 1994 SIGMOD Conference and the 1993 International Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal Databases. In addition, he has served as a vicechair or member of many program committees.

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