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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Jim Gray's Tandem contributions
This paper discusses the contributions and accomplishments of Jim Gray while he was at Tandem Computers between 1980 and the early 1990s.
John Nauman, Wendy Bartlett
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Why did Jim Gray win the Turing Award?
This short paper is intended to describe for the layman why Jim Gray won so many awards, culminating in his being selected to receive the 1998 ACM Turing Award, arguably the "...
Michael Stonebraker
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Jim Gray at IBM: the transaction processing revolution
While at the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory, in the 1970's, Dr. Jim Gray defined and developed the fundamental concepts and techniques that underlie on-line transaction pro...
Bruce G. Lindsay
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and beyond
Our collaboration with Jim Gray has created some of the world's largest astronomy databases, and has enabled us to test many avant-garde ideas in practice. The astronomers ha...
Alexander S. Szalay
USITS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Why Do Internet Services Fail, and What Can Be Done About It?
In 1986 Jim Gray published his landmark study of the causes of failures of Tandem systems and the techniques Tandem used to prevent such failures [6]. Seventeen years later, Inter...
David L. Oppenheimer, Archana Ganapathi, David A. ...