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Dec 15, 2009 · In a speech given just a few weeks before he was lost at sea off the California coast in January 2007, Jim Gray, a database software pioneer and a Microsoft researcher, sketched out an argument...
computer scientist—from foundation-building to the creation and measurement of tools to their application—is one that we view as Jim Gray’s need and ability to “be where the action is” and to be forever relevant.
Jul 24, 2007 · Gray’s mysterious disappearance inspired one of the most ambitious search-and-rescue missions in history. First the Coast Guard scoured 132,000 square miles of ocean. Then a team of scientists ...
This collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized.
His best-known achievements include: ACID, an acronym describing the requirements for reliable transaction processing and its software implementation. Granular database locking [15] Two-tier transaction commit semantics. The Five-minute rule for allocating storage. OLAP cube operator for data warehousing. He assisted in developing Virtual Earth.
After a winter in New York, Gray decided he wanted to move back to California. But first he spent the summer of 1972 as a UNESCO Expert at the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest in Romania. Back in California, he accepted an offer from IBM’s San Jose Research Laboratory (now IBM Almaden).
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Jun 2, 2008 · In this new kind of science, “computer scientists really learn the scientists’ science and become a co-partner or a twin working on science overall.”
