Jim Gray (computer scientist)

Jim Gray
Gray in 2006
Born
James Nicholas Gray

(1944-01-12)January 12, 1944[1]
San Francisco, California[2]
DisappearedJanuary 28, 2007 (aged 63)
Waters near San Francisco
StatusDeclared dead in absentia
January 28, 2012(2012-01-28) (aged 68)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)
OccupationComputer scientist
Employers
Known forWork on database and transaction processing systems
Spouse(s)Loretta (divorced), Donna Carnes (widowed)
Children1 (daughter)
AwardsTuring 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]

  1. ^ "DeWitt Undergraduate CS Scholarship: Dr. James Gray". University of Wisconsin–Madison. Archived from the original on 2010-02-23. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  2. ^ Oral History Interview with Jim Gray [purl.umn.edu/107339 Synopsis] at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. 3 January 2002. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
  3. ^ Gray, J. (2003). "What next?: A dozen information-technology research goals" (PDF). Journal of the ACM. 50: 41–57. arXiv:cs/9911005. doi:10.1145/602382.602401. S2CID 10336312. Jim Gray Turing Award lecture
  4. ^ Gray, Jim (1998). "Jim Gray - A.M. Turing Award Winner". ACM.

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