Tribute to honor Jim Gray on May 31st, 2008 at UC Berkeley

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