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Tribute to Jim Gray

By Andy Warren, 2008/04/24

Ran across this in the Mar/Apr ACM Queue, http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/IPRO/JimGrayTribute/ will be held at UC Berkeley on May 31st, 2008. Jim Gray was a Microsoft researcher that focused on databases and was lost at sea some time ago.