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 be "the chosen one." And we were: Jim had so much to give that he was able to choose hundreds of us, shaping our careers and our lives.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SIGMOD
• Authors: Edward D. Lazowska
• Keywords: Careers, Database, Industry, SIGMOD 2008