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
Comments: 2
Michael Treese [24 November 2007 09:45 AM]
Colleague and friend of Jim - Tandem Computers
Jeff Balboni [29 January 2008 07:52 AM]
Jim always had a clear vision on where the computer industry needed to go. I worked with Jim during the formation of the SQL Access Group and later at Digital Equipment Corp.