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2008
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Search survey for S/V Tenacious: Gulf of Farallones and approaches to San Francisco Bay
On January 28th , 2007, Jim Gray sailed his 40 foot sailboat, Tenacious, on a day cruise to the Farallon Islands off San Francisco and was reported overdue when he didn't ret...
Ed Saade
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Scaleability and immortality
James Nicholas Gray's understanding and experimentation gave him a special perspective. From 1995 his commitment was building indefinitely scalable tools by working on really...
Gordon Bell
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
A "Gap Bridger"
I knew Jim Gray as a colleague, a friend and an employee. He created the first Microsoft Research group outside of our initial research lab in Redmond, WA. Jim's impact on in...
Richard F. Rashid
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
A tribute, not a memorial: understanding ambiguous loss
In this paper, I discuss ambiguous loss, why it is so traumatizing, what to do to lower the distress when someone disappears without a trace, and why a tribute is more appropriate...
Pauline Boss
SIGMOD
1995
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels
: ANSI SQL-92 [MS, ANSI] defines Isolation Levels in terms of phenomena: Dirty Reads, Non-Repeatable Reads, and Phantoms. This paper shows that these phenomena and the ANSI SQL def...
Hal Berenson, Philip A. Bernstein, Jim Gray, Jim M...