Jim Gray
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Jim Gray was a pioneering computer scientist renowned for his foundational work in database systems and transaction processing, which earned him numerous top honors in the field.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Gray canonical | 3 |
| Jim Gray eScience Award named in his honor | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Turing Award laureate
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computer scientist ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in computer science ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Turing Award
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surface form:
ACM A.M. Turing Award
ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award ⓘ
surface form:
ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
ACM Software System Award ⓘ IEEE John von Neumann Medal ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1944-01-12 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
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surface form:
San Francisco, California, United States
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| causeOfDeath | lost at sea ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| deathDate | 2007-01-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer |
Digital Equipment Corporation
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IBM ⓘ Microsoft Research ⓘ Tandem Computers ⓘ University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | Gray ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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database systems ⓘ transaction processing ⓘ |
| fullName |
James Gray
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surface form:
James Nicholas Gray
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| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
Jim Gray
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surface form:
Jim Gray eScience Award named in his honor
Microsoft eScience program named in his honor ⓘ |
| influenced |
distributed database design
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modern database management systems ⓘ online transaction processing systems ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to data management
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contributions to eScience and data-intensive science ⓘ contributions to fault-tolerant distributed systems ⓘ foundational work in database systems ⓘ foundational work in transaction processing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ National Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| notableEvent | disappeared at sea near the Farallon Islands in 2007 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
contributions to relational database implementation
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development of transaction processing concepts such as ACID properties ⓘ pioneering work in data-intensive scientific computing ⓘ principles of transaction processing ⓘ work on fault-tolerant distributed systems for online transaction processing ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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