Jim Gray Still Missing at Sea
Posted on January 31, 2007, 1:35 pm, by James Fee, under
Microsoft.
The news that there might have been a break on Jim Gray seems to have fizzled. For those who haven’t read, Jim Gray of Microsoft has been missing since January 28th. Jim is Technical Fellow for Microsoft Research and has been responsible for such projects as TerraServer, SkyServer and anything related to ultra-large database and transaction-processing. He received the Turing Award in 1998 “For seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation.” which is quite an accomplishment.
Update - The Virtual Earth Blog has some thoughts on Jim Gray.
Damn GPS units. This is why I still swim with floaties in the pool.
Jim is ( he is still out there though unaccounted for) a tireless servant to the big thinker. He helped us (Georges Natsoulis and myself at DataHooks) think big and scale the architecture of our project to accommodate those big thoughts. He was a friend and an advocate and we hope ….
Was Grey involved in any ‘Secret’ type of nuclear weapons or nuclear war fighting research?
The “ET” took Lt Felix Moncla into custody in 1953 and still are holding him. If the “ET” took Grey into custody, we may not see him again until we get the nuclear war machine shut down.