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2008
ACM
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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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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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Query answering techniques on uncertain and probabilistic data: tutorial summary
Uncertain data are inherent in some important applications, such as environmental surveillance, market analysis, and quantitative economics research. Due to the importance of thos...
Jian Pei, Ming Hua, Yufei Tao, Xuemin Lin
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Domain adaptation of information extraction models
Domain adaptation refers to the process of adapting an extraction model trained in one domain to another related domain with only unlabeled data. We present a brief survey of exis...
Rahul Gupta, Sunita Sarawagi
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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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