A "Gap Bridger"

ABSTRACT

I knew Jim Gray as a colleague, a friend and an employee. He created the first Microsoft Research group outside of our initial research lab in Redmond, WA. Jim's impact on industry and science was not limited to his own area of research. He championed new ways of thinking about how computer science and information processing could be integrated into other areas of research. In so doing; he will have a lasting impact on the rate of progress in many disciplines. His success stemmed not just from what he knew and what he could do with his knowledge, but also from who he was as a person. Jim was a "Gap Bridger" -- someone who could connect people, groups, companies and disciplines.

REFERENCES

• 1: {Gray} http://research.microsoft.com/~Gray/
• 2: {Barclay 1998} Tom Barclay, Robert Eberl, Jim Gray, John Norlinger, Guru Raghavendran, Don Slutz, Greg Smith, Phil Smoot, John Hoffman, Natt Robb III, Hedy Rossmeissl, Beth Duff, George Lee, Theresa Mathesmier, Randall Sunne, Lee Ann Stivers, Ken Goodman, The Microsoft TerraServer, MSR-TR-98-17.
• 3: Tom Barclay , Jim Gray , Don Slutz, Microsoft TerraServer: a spatial data warehouse, Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, p.307-318, May 15-18, 2000, Dallas, Texas, United States
• 4: Alexander S. Szalay , Peter Z. Kunszt , Ani Thakar , Jim Gray , Don Slutz , Robert J. Brunner, Designing and mining multi-terabyte astronomy archives: the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, p.451-462, May 15-18, 2000, Dallas, Texas, United States
• 5: Jim Gray , David T. Liu , Maria Nieto-Santisteban , Alex Szalay , David J. DeWitt , Gerd Heber, Scientific data management in the coming decade, ACM SIGMOD Record, v.34 n.4, p.34-41, December 2005 [doi>10.1145/1107499.1107503]
• 6: {Singh 2006} Vik Singh, Jim Gray, Ani R. Thakar, Alexander S. Szalay, Jordon Raddick, Bill Boroski, Svetlana Lebedeva, Brian Yanny, SkyServer Traffic Report - The First Five Years, MSR-TR-2006-190.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  A. General Literature
  A.0 GENERAL

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.0 GENERAL
  H.m MISCELLANEOUS