Jim Gray : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Jim Gray / dullhunk
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| 説明 | Jim Gray pictured in The Fourth ParadigmA Few Words About Jim... Turing award winner and american computer scientist Dr. James Nicholas “Jim” Gray (born 1944, missing at sea on January 28, 2007) was esteemed for his groundbreaking work as a programmer, database expert, engineer, and researcher. He earned his Ph.D. from the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley, in 1969—becoming the first person to earn a doctorate in computer science at that institution. He worked at several major high-tech companies, including Bell Labs, IBM Research, Tandem, Digital Equipment Corporation, and finally Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley. Jim joined Microsoft in 1995 as a Senior Researcher, ultimately becoming a Technical Fellow and managing the Bay Area Research Center (BARC). His primary research interests were large databases and transaction processing systems. He had a longstanding interest in scalable computing—building super-servers and work group systems from commodity software and hardware. His work after 2002 focused on eScience: applying computers to solve data-intensive scientific problems. This culminated in his vision (with Alex Szalay) of a “fourth paradigm” of science, a logical progression of earlier, historical phases dominated by experimentation, theory, and simulation. Jim pioneered database technology and was among the first to develop the technology used in computerized transactions. His work helped develop e-commerce, online ticketing, automated teller machines, and deep databases that enable the success of today’s high-quality modern Internet search engines. In 1998, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in computer science, for “seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation.” He was appointed an IEEE Fellow in 1982 and also received the IEEE Charles Babbage Award. His later work in database technology has been used by oceanographers, geologists, and astronomers. Among his accomplishments at Microsoft were the TerraServer Web site in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey, which paved the way for modern Internet mapping services, and his work on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in conjunction with the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) and others. Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope software, based on the latter, is dedicated to Jim. “Jim always reached out in two ways—technically and personally,” says David Vaskevitch, Microsoft’s senior corporate vice president and chief technical officer in the Platform Technology & Strategy division. “Technically, he was always there first, pointing out how different the future would be than the present.” “Many people in our industry, including me, are deeply indebted to Jim for his intellect, his vision, and his unselfish willingness to be a teacher and a mentor,” says Mike Olson, vice president of Embedded Technologies at Oracle Corporation. Adds Shankar Sastry, dean of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, “Jim was a true visionary and leader in this field.” “Jim’s impact is measured not just in his technical accomplishments, but also in the numbers of people around the world whose work he inspired,” says Rick Rashid, senior corporate vice president at Microsoft Research. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sums up Jim’s legacy in this way: “The impact of his thinking is continuing to get people to think in a new way about how data and software are redefining what it means to do science.” Such sentiments are frequently heard from the myriad researchers, friends, and colleagues who interacted with Jim over the years, irrespective of their own prominence and reputation. Known, loved, and respected by so many, Jim Gray needs no introduction, so instead we dedicate this book to him and the amazing work that continues in his absence. —The Editors |
| 撮影日 | 2009-12-15 20:57:50 |
| 撮影者 | dullhunk , Manchester, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | San Francisco, California, United States 地図 |