SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
This short paper is intended to describe for the layman why Jim Gray won so many awards, culminating in his being selected to receive the 1998 ACM Turing Award, arguably the "...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
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...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
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 b...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
Jim Gray spent a decade as a student and researcher at Berkeley. In action, he is remembered for his breath, his depth, and his generosity. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.1 ...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
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...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
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...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper is talks about the critical role that Jim Gray played in the creation of the WorldWide Telescope software. Contrary to what you might think it wasn't his database ...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
Jim Gray made many friends and few enemies in his career. Many of the projects he worked on were inspired by one or more of his friends and collaborators in industry and academia....
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
In fall of 2004, we met Jim Gray and began to converse about the data needs of ocean scientists. The conversations ultimately led to the development of a unique portal for explori...
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
In this paper, we focus on an aspect of distributed XQuery processing that involves data exchanges between processor elements. We first address problems of distributed XML query p...