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Famous DB Nerds #9 (cont)

Jim Gray

  
  • Pioneered transaction processing
  • 1969 PhD from UC Berkeley
  • 1970-1995 IBM, Tandem, DEC
  • 1999 Turing Award   (for tp research)
  • 1995-2007 Microsoft Research Lab (oh well)
  • Other work: scientific databases, sensor networks
  • Present whereabouts unknown ...
    • disappeared at sea, 27 Jan 2007