Tribute to Honor Jim Gray - General Session
May 31, 2008, 09:00AMZellerbach Auditorium
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General Session
Welcome - Shankar SastryOpening Remarks - Joseph Hellerstein
A Tribute, Not a Memorial: Understanding Ambiguous Loss - Pauline Boss
The Amateur Search - Michael Olson
Jim Gray at Berkeley - Michael Harrison
Knowledge and Wisdom - Pat Helland
Why Did Jim Gray Win the Turing Award? - Michael Stonebraker
Jim Gray Chair - Stuart Russell
500 Special Relationships: Jim as a Mentor to Faculty and Students - Ed Lazowska
Jim Gray: His Contributions to Industry - David Vaskevitch
A "Gap Bridger" - Richard Rashid
Thanks to the U.S. Coast Guard - Paula Hawthorn
Three organizations dedicated to the advancement of computing science, IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery, and EECS, UC Berkeley will join the family and colleagues of Jim Gray in hosting a tribute to the legendary computer science pioneer, missing at sea since Jan. 28, 2007.
Gray is known for his groundbreaking work as a programmer, database expert and Microsoft engineer. Gray's work helped make possible such technologies as the cash machine, ecommerce, online ticketing, and deep databases like Google. In 1998, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in computer science. He was appointed an IEEE Fellow in 1982, and also received IEEE Charles Babbage Award.
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This event was sponsored by Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
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