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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. Query by zimmundfroid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why do they call the coast guard? Isn't enough with a simple SQL query?

  2. do you even know who he is? by d1rty_d0gg_ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It makes me sick to see ignorant readers trying to be smug with their "+3 funny" remarks. Jim Gray is one of the great minds in computer science, a Turing award recipient and has published some of the seminal works in transactions and serializability theory. Cut out the Microsoft bashing and show some respect.

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    "Show me your tables and I won't usually need your flow charts; they'll be obvious".