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Jim Gray

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Also known as James Nicholas Gray, James Nicholas "Jim" Gray

American computer scientist (1944–2007/2012)

Person · Open Library

Works
11

Top works

  • Talking to GOATs
  • Maritime terror
  • Brush lettering step by step
  • Desperate Seed
  • How Leaders Speak

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1968-06-13
alternativealternative rockbritishcontemporary folkfolkfolk rock

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
339
Total plays
2,395

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Jim Gray is a musician out of Memphis, Tennessee whose music runs a variety of sounds from abstract noise walls to cheesy dance anthems. He began his musical career by getting a copy of garageband on his Mac g4. He later added on to that work by acquiring an mpc 2000 at a pawn shop. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jim+Gray">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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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

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Jim Gray Computing in the 21st Century 2006.jpg
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Commons category
James N. Gray
date of birth
1944-01-12
Erdős number
5
date of disappearance
2007-01-28
date of death
2012-01-28
name in native language
James Nicholas "Jim" Gray
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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".

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