Jim Gray | |
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Born | James Nicholas Gray January 12, 1944[1] San Francisco, California[2] |
Disappeared | January 28, 2007 (aged 63) Waters near San Francisco |
Status | Declared dead in absentia January 28, 2012 (aged 68) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.) |
Occupation | Computer scientist |
Employers | |
Known for | Work on database and transaction processing systems |
Spouse(s) | Loretta (divorced), Donna Carnes (widowed) |
Children | 1 (daughter) |
Awards | Turing Award (1998)[3] IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award (1998) |
James Nicholas Gray (1944 – declared dead in absentia 2012) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation".[4]