SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2008
ACM
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...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2008
ACM
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...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2008
ACM
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 "...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2008
ACM
Jim Gray spent a decade as a student and researcher at Berkeley. In action, he is remembered for his breath, his depth, and his generosity. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.1 ...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2008
ACM
On January 28th , 2007, Jim Gray sailed his 40 foot sailboat, Tenacious, on a day cruise to the Farallon Islands off San Francisco and was reported overdue when he didn't ret...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper is talks about the critical role that Jim Gray played in the creation of the WorldWide Telescope software. Contrary to what you might think it wasn't his database ...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2008
ACM
Jim Gray made many friends and few enemies in his career. Many of the projects he worked on were inspired by one or more of his friends and collaborators in industry and academia....