A tribute to honor Jim Gray will be held on May 31st, 2008 at UC Berkeley. The general session is open to all, followed by a technical session reviewing a small fraction of Jim’s lasting contributions. Registration is required to attend the technical session.
General Session Program 9:00am – 10:30am, Zellerbach Hall
- Opening Remarks – Joe Hellerstein
- A Tribute, Not a Memorial: Understanding Ambiguous Loss – Pauline Boss
- The Search Effort – Mike Olson
- Jim’s Impact on Berkeley – Mike Harrison
- Jim as a Mentor: Colleagues – Pat Helland
- Jim as a Mentor: Faculty and Students – Ed Lazowska
- Why Jim Got the Turing Award – Mike Stonebraker
- Jim’s Contributions to Industry I – David Vaskevitch
- Jim’s Contributions to Industry II – Rick Rashid
Technical Session Program 11:00am – 5:30pm, Wheeler Hall (Registration is required)
- IBM/Transaction Processing – Bruce Lindsay
- Tandem/Fault Tolerance –
- Development & Effect of TPC/A Benchmark – David DeWitt
- DEC, Architecture, Memex and More – Gordon Bell
- Writing the Transaction Processing book: “Is There Life After Transaction Processing?” – Andreas Reuter
- The Adventure in Russia and the Terra Server – Tom Barclay
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey – Alex Szalay
- World Wide Telescope Project – Curtis Wong
- Undersea Data Collection & Sharing – Jim Bellingham