James N. Gray

James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born 1944, lost at sea January 28, 2007) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation." Gray studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his B.S. in Engineering Mathematics (Math and Statistics) in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1969. H... more

Date of birth:

  • 1944

Date of death:

  • 2007 (age 63 years)

Also known as:

  • James Nicholas "Jim" Gray
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Awards Won:

Year Award Notes/Description
  • 1998
  • for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation
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