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Jim Gray Is Missing

Posted by kdawson on from the red-sky-at-night dept.

K-Man writes "Jim Gray, Turing Award winner and developer of many fundamental database technologies, was reported missing at sea after a short solo sailing trip to the Farallon Islands off San Francisco. Gray is manager of Microsoft's eScience group. The Coast Guard is searching for his vessel over 4,000 square miles of ocean, and there have been no distress calls or signals of any kind. Gray is 63 and a sailor with 10 years' experience."

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  1. Re:Win-win situation by cp.tar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, you know what they say about artificial intelligence and natural stupidity...

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  2. Of course they can't find him by thesnarky1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When Ballmer "Buries a guy" its not like he does a half-assed job of it! That'll teach HIM for thinking about going to work on the Google Omnipotent Database!

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  3. To all of you making light of this tragedy... by LifeForm42 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To hell with you, you mindless little idiots.