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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
500 special relationships: Jim as a mentor to faculty and students
There are hundreds of us in academia and industry who consider ourselves FoJ: Friends of Jim. Jim invested so deeply and so uniquely in every one of us that we each felt we must b...
Edward D. Lazowska
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Jim Gray at Berkeley
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 ...
Michael A. Harrison
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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A tribute, not a memorial: understanding ambiguous loss
In this paper, I discuss ambiguous loss, why it is so traumatizing, what to do to lower the distress when someone disappears without a trace, and why a tribute is more appropriate...
Pauline Boss
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Search survey for S/V Tenacious: Gulf of Farallones and approaches to San Francisco Bay
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...
Ed Saade
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Building the WorldWide Telescope
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 ...
Curtis Wong
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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TerraServer and the Russia adventure..
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....
Tom Barclay
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Exploring ocean data
In fall of 2004, we met Jim Gray and began to converse about the data needs of ocean scientists. The conversations ultimately led to the development of a unique portal for explori...
James G. Bellingham, Mike Godin
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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The YAGO-NAGA approach to knowledge discovery
This paper gives an overview on the YAGO-NAGA approach to information extraction for building a conveniently searchable, large-scale, highly accurate knowledge base of common fact...
Gjergji Kasneci, Maya Ramanath, Fabian M. Suchanek...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
The amateur search
Michael Olson