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Jim Gray
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American computer scientist (1944–2007/2012)
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- Works
- 11
Top works
- Talking to GOATs
- Maritime terror
- Brush lettering step by step
- Desperate Seed
- How Leaders Speak
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Key facts
- Born
- James Nicholas Gray , ( 1944-01-12 ) January 12, 1944 , San Francisco , California
- Disappeared
- January 28, 2007 (2007-01-28) (aged 63), Waters near San Francisco
- Status
- Declared dead in absentia , January 28, 2012 (2012-01-28) (aged 68)
- Citizenship
- American
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley ( BS , MS , PhD ), New York University
- Occupation
- Computer scientist
- Employers
- IBM Tandem Computers DEC Microsoft
- Known for
- Work on database and transaction processing systems
- Spouse s
- Loretta (divorced), Donna Carnes (widowed)
- Children
- 1 (daughter)
- Awards
- Turing Award (1998) , IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award (1998)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nicholas
- Family name
- Gray
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Francisco
- Place of death
- Pacific Ocean
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Employer
- IBM
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- computer science
- Official website
- research.microsoft.com/~Gray
- Image
- Jim Gray Computing in the 21st Century 2006.jpg
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- Commons category
- James N. Gray
- date of birth
- 1944-01-12
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Erdős number
- 5
- date of disappearance
- 2007-01-28
- date of death
- 2012-01-28
- different from
- James Gray
- name in native language
- James Nicholas "Jim" Gray
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
James Nicholas Gray (1944 – declared dead in absentia 2012) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation".
Early years and personal life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jim Gray” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.