Tribute to Honor Jim Gray - Technical Session 3
May 31, 2008, 03:30PMAuditorium Wheeler
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Technical Session 3
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Beyond - Alexander G. SzalayBuilding the World Wide Telescope - Curtis Wong
Search Survey for S/V Tenacious - Ed Saade
Exploring Ocean Data - James G. Bellingham and Michael Godin
Closing - Donna Carnes
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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Sponsor Details
This event was sponsored by Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
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