Tribute to Honor Jim Gray - Technical Session 1
May 31, 2008, 11:00AMAuditorium Wheeler
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Technical Session 1
Opening - Michael StonebrakerJim Gray at IBM - Bruce G. Lindsay
Jim Gray's Tandem Contributions - Wendy Bartlett, Jerry Held and John Nauman
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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