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James Nicholas Gray

American computer scientist
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Category: Science & Tech
Born:
Jan. 12, 1944, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.
Disappeared:
Jan. 28, 2007, near San Francisco
Awards And Honors:
Turing Award (1998)
Subjects Of Study:
database
transaction processing
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James Nicholas Gray (born Jan. 12, 1944, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.—disappeared Jan. 28, 2007, near San Francisco) American computer scientist and winner of the 1998 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his “seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation.” Gray attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a bachelor’s degree (1966) in mathematics and engineering and—following a year off to work at Bell Laboratories (1966–67)—the school’s first doctorate in computer science (1969). He remained at Berkeley for an IBM postdoctoral fellowship (1969–71) before working at various IBM ...(100 of 389 words)

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