Scaleability and immortality

ABSTRACT

James Nicholas Gray's understanding and experimentation gave him a special perspective. From 1995 his commitment was building indefinitely scalable tools by working on really hard data-intensive application problems with other scientific disciplines. His attention to research for both understanding and use made him a unique researcher. Jim pioneered a new kind of 21^st century science based on data analytics, requiring computer scientists to collaborate as an equal with scientists in other fields.

Gray was an advocate and principal supporter of the MyLifeBits project aimed at extending our memory, memex. The by-product includes digital immortality that we herein speculate and explore.

REFERENCES

• 1: Gray, J. "Thousands of Debit-Credit Transactions per Second: Easy and Inexpensive", MSR Technical Report MSR-TR-2005-39
• 2: Stokes, D. E. Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, Brookings Institution, 1997.
• 3: Gordon Bell , Jim Gray, What's next in high-performance computing?, Communications of the ACM, v.45 n.2, p.91-95, February 2002 [doi>10.1145/503124.503129]
• 4: Gordon Bell , Jim Gray , Alex Szalay, Petascale Computational Systems, Computer, v.39 n.1, p.110-112, January 2006 [doi>10.1109/MC.2006.29]
• 5: <u>eScience Talk at NRC-CSTB meeting</u> Mountain View CA, 11 January 2007. Available on research.microsoft.com/~gray
• 6: Gordon Bell , James N. Gray, The revolution yet to happen, Beyond calculation: the next fifty years, Copernicus, New York, NY, 1997
• 7: Gordon Bell , Jim Gray, Digital immortality, Communications of the ACM, v.44 n.3, p.28-31, March 2001 [doi>10.1145/365181.365182]
• 8: Interview of Jim Gray, Behind the Code, March 3, 2006 <u>MSDN Channel 9</u>

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