Jim Gray's Bio.

一、Jim Gray官网简历

 Dr. Gray is a specialist in database and transaction processingcomputer systems. At Microsoft his research focuses on applyingcomputers to solve data-intensive scientific problems: eScience.   Hehas a long-standing interest in scaleable computing: buildingsuper-servers and work-group systems from commodity software andhardware.  Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked at Digital, Tandem,IBM and AT&T on database and transaction processing systemsincluding Rdb, ACMS, NonStop SQL, Pathway, System R, SQL/DS, DB2, andIMS-Fast Path.  He is editor of the Performance Handbook for Databaseand Transaction Processing Systems, and co-author of TransactionProcessing Concepts and Techniques.  He holds doctorates from Berkeleyand honorary doctorates from Stuttgart(1990) and Paris, is a Member ofthe National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts andScience, and the National Academy of Science, a Fellow of the ACM, andEditor of the Morgan Kaufmann series on Data Management.  In 1998 hereceived the ACM Turing Award.In that year also he received the IEEECharles Babbage Award for high-performance database systems. Hefrequently lectures at universities, and often reviews applicationdesigns.  He has been a McKay Fellow at UC Berkeley.

  2007 年 1 月 28 日 Gray 独自驾船出海，前往旧金山附近的 Farallon Islands 撒放母亲骨灰，在太平洋中神秘失踪，迄今下落不明。

Employment History（职业历史）

1995-     Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research, San Francisco, CA,
                promoted to Distinguished Engineer in 2000.

1994 -1995  McKay Fellow at University of California Computer Science Department

1990 - 1994 Corporate Consulting Engineer: Digital Equipment Corporation

1988 (spring): Stanford University Department of Computer Science

1980-1990 Software Designer, Software Development Department, Tandem Computers, Cupertino, CA.

1972-1980 Research Staff Member, Computer Science Department, IBM Research, San Jose, CA.

1972  UNESCO Expert, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania

1971-1972 Research Staff Member, General Science Department, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY.

1969-1971 IBM Post Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

1967-1969  Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

1966-1967 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratory, Whippany, NJ.

1965-1966 Research Assistant, Electronics Research Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

1964  Reader, Mathematics Department, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

1962, 1963  Co-op Student, General Dynamics Astronautics, San Diego, CA.

Education（教育）
1961-1966: UC Berkeley, Departments of Mathematics and Engineering. BS Degree in Mathematics and Engineering. 
1966: Courant Institute at New York University. 
1967-1969: UC Berkeley, Department of Computer Science.  PhD Degree in Computer Science.

Professional Honors（职业荣誉）
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Chi
Honorary Doctorate of Natural Science, University of Stuttgart, 1990,
IBM Outstanding Innovation Award（IBM卓越创新奖）
Tandem Outstanding Performer Award（Tandem卓越表现奖）         
Association for Computing Machinery
                1982: Best Systems Paper（最佳系统论文） -- for paper on System R recovery manger.
                1989: Best Systems Award – for work on Relational DBs  Shared award with 8 others.
                1993 SIGMOD Data Management Software Systems Award
                1994 Elected ACM Fellow
                1994 SIGMOD best paper award
                1998 VLDB best paper award 10 years later (with Dina Bitton)
                1998 Turing Award
National Academy of Engineering: 1997 Elected to membership.
IEEE      1998 Charles Babbage Award - for High Performance Database Systems
US Geological Survey:  2000  John Wesley Powell Award (with Tom Barclay for TerraServer)
National Academy of Science: Elected to membership
American Academy of Arts And Sciences: 2001 Elected to membership
European Academy of Science: 2003 Elected to membership
University of Paris Dauphine: 2004 Honorary Doctorate
Distinguished Lecturer at:
CMU,Ga. Tech., MIT, Simon Frazer U., U Alberta, U Virginia, U Washington,U. Illinois, U. Minnesota,  U. Minnesota, U. Stuttgart, U. Wisconsin atMadison, UC Bakersfield, Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angles, Rice, SantaBarbara, Santa Cruz, San Diego, U. Texas, U Maryland
Keynote Speaker:
                • Italian ACM Conference 1980
                • VLDB 1981, 1985, 1991, 1998
                • German ACM Conference 1982
                • Australian ACM Conference 1983,
                • Principles of Distributed Computing 1985
                • SIGMETRICS 1987
                • Workshop on Database Machines 1989
                • International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems, 1990
                • DBexpo 92, 93, 94, 95, 96
                • RdbExpo, DECUS 92, 93, 94
                • FCRC 99
                • SIGMOD 97, 99, 04
                • NetStore 99, HPTS99,..
                •  many more
Taught many short-courses at various institutes

Professional Affiliations
Member of National Academy of Engineering
Member of National Academy of Science
Member of American Academy of Arts and Science
Member of European Academy of Science
Regent of National Library of Medicine
Fellow of Association of Computing Machinery
Former Trustee of VLDB Endowment
Former Member of National Research Council, study group on
Directions of Computer Science,
Library of Congress IT plan
Sustainability Research
               Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (1990-1999)
FormerMember of Presidential Advisory Committee on Next Generation Internet,High Performance Computing, and Information Technology
 
Association of Computing Machines
                • Special Interest Group on Operating Systems
                • Special Interest Group on Management of Data
                • Special Interest Group on Programming Languages
                • Past Chairman of ACM Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee
                • SIGMOD program committee (9 years)
                • SIGOPS program committee (3 years)
                • PODS program committee (2 years)
                • VLDB program committee (7 years)
                • OSDI program committee (2 years)
                • Turing Award committee (4 years, now chairman).
 
IEEE
                • Western Area Program Committee
                • CompCon Program Committee (ten years)
• John von Neumann Award
VLDB Foundation
                • VLDB program committee (six years)
                • Former Editor in Chief of Very Large Database Journal (1990-1998)
• Former Trustee of the VLDB foundation (1990-2000)
• Organizer of CIDR and HPTS workshops
Industrial Affiliate
                • UC Berkeley
                • Stanford
                • U. Wisconsin
Federation of American Scientists
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Editor of Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems

Jim Gray with his colleagues Gianfranco Putzulo and Irving Traigerin the late '70' / early '80s when they did groundbreaking work onconcurrency control for databases (image courtesy of Heather Gray)

 左一是Ken Thompson、左二是Butler Lampson、右二Jim Gray, 右一Niklaus Wirth

        
二、一些对照时间点

Beforewe can look at the future, we have to go back to August1969（这一年也是Gray博士毕业的同一年） to discover the origins of the relationalmodel. This was when Dr. E. F. Codd published his paper, "Derivability,Redundancy, and Consistency of Relations Stored in Large Data Banks" inan IBM Research Report. - From In the Beginning: An RDBMS history - byColin White,Teradata Magazine,September 2004

Vera Watson - Gray 与 Vera Watson 于75年发表的一篇文章似乎是他转向实践的操作系统研究的第一篇文章，在前期与导师 Michael Harrison 合作发表的文章集中在语法及逻辑关系方面

三、与Gray合作过的人物

JosephS. Barrera III: Since early 2004 I have been a Senior SoftwareArchitect at Collation, working on Confignia, an automated enterprisesoftware discovery tool; my responsibilities are mainly for thediscovery of Windows software. In late 2005, Collation was acquired byIBM, but my responsibilities have remained the same, albeit as part ofthe TADDM product.

Wilbur H. Highleyman - 高可用系统领域名人，《PerformanceAnalysis of Transaction Processing Systems》(Prentice Hall,1989)一书作者.Thefounder of The Sombers Group, Dr. Bill Highleyman, acted as theperformance auditor on two of Tandem's performance prediction products- Tandem Capacity Model (TCM) and Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA).Bill has been an ITUG member since 1980, becoming president of theNortheast Region Tandem User Group (NRTUG) in 1981. In 1984, he joinedthe ITUG Board of Directors, where he served as the ITUG chair in 1986.He has contributed heavily to the ITUG technical journal, "TheConnection," and currently serves on the HP enterprise advocacycommittee.Gray在Tandem工作过
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四、访谈（Interview）

AConversation with Jim Gray - A computing great takes time to discusstransaction theory, databases, and more in this 2001 interview - byPhilippe Lourier,Dr.Dobb's Journal,2001
访谈内容：Introduction、 TheComputer Industry: the early days、 Records,Fields,and FORTRAN、Out ofBell Labs、Developing Relational Databases、Transaction Theory、Algorithmsand the Web、SQL、Stored Procedures、Performance,Time and Space、Conclusion- 这篇访谈侧重交易理论及其历史，而在Charles Babbage Institute关于Gray的口述历史中，对交易谈得不多

ATalk With Database Guru Jim Gray: Find out about the future of SQLServer 2000 and extreme scaling from Microsoft's resident expert inlarge databases, February 1, 2002

An Interview with Jim Gray - by David A. Patterson,ACMQueue,June 2003
两人探讨了三个方面的问题：一存贮的当前状态；二在存贮层之上的数据库和关系模型；三是开源数据库现状及未来展望。在存贮层面，他们谈到了大容量磁盘与磁带的关系，Gray认为大容量磁盘可以取代磁带做备份，Gray还谈到了T级数据库借助大容量磁盘进行快递的问题。在谈到关系模型时，Gray特别提到Codd对穿孔卡应用的深刻理解和洞见，在比较IMS老一代数据库与关系数据库优劣时，Gray从易用性(usability)上进行了阐述，Gray还谈到OLTP与批处理，他说批处理并没有死，仍然在继续演化。对于开源数据库如Postgress、MySql，Gray在一定程度上是看好它们的，但也指出了它们在开发质量、专业支持和产品特色上同DB巨头的差距，Oracle不会受到大的影响，Sybase不清楚。

Deconstructing databases with Jim Gray - by Mark Whitehorn,Register Developer,May 2006
Mark是一位受人尊重的技术评论员，他从87年开始发表各种文章，他出版了多部书籍，他在Personal ComputerWorld杂志上的数据库专栏是时间跨度最长的数据库专栏之一，他在教育、研究和实践领域都有建树。在对Gray的这篇专访中，他们谈到了并行计算，就图形计算领域使用的GPU并行技术的现状、用在企业数据处理领域的可能性做了探讨，GPU领域早就有CPU多核的概念，而且它们可能有几百个核，这个领域值得关注，GPU并行编程的复杂性，以及所需要的思维方式的转变限制了它在其它领域发挥更大的作用。Mark多次谈到Gray令人敬佩的品格，引用几句原文- One of the great exceptions to this rule is Jim Gray, who has managedto combine an outstanding academic career  with a very practicalone.....If all that wasn't enough, Jim Gray is further renowned forbeing a humanist. One of the most decent, honest, upright, pleasantpeople you could hope to meet....Even hardened cynical computerjournalists treat this guy with seriousrespect.在谈到交易完整性方面时，对于补偿(compensation)和逆向(reverse)交易，Gray认为它们不能解决所有问题，对它们要进行界定，有些不属于计算机领域考虑的问题，需要人工介入。在谈到实时分析时，Gray认为多维数据库中的FactTable实质上就是原始表的Index，关于SQL，他以SQLServer为例说其中容纳了太多东西，一些人并不清楚多维数据是什么、数据挖掘模型如何工作，但这不影响那些人成为专家。

An interview with Jim Gray - by Philip L. Frana,Charles Babbage Institute,January 3,2002
这是一篇口述历史，对Gray为何选择加州伯克利大学，在大学、博士期间的学习情况，如何知道并进入计算机行业，如何对高性能、高可靠计算感兴趣有深度挖掘

五、纪念文章

2008年5月31日柏克利加州大学Gray纪念会

Thousands Remember Missing Microsoft Database Pioneer Jim Gray - Charles Babcock, InformationWeek, May 2008

六、References

Jim Gray Recommended Articles - From Jim Gray's Website at Microsoft

SQL Server大型服务器：伸缩性、可用性与易管理性. July 2004 - 由Jim Gray和Microsoft SQL Server开发团队合作的一个项目

The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics edited by Paul McJones - 这篇关于SQL 20年回忆录中有些涉及1968——1974年间工作

In the Beginning: An RDBMS history - by Colin White,Teradata Magazine,September 2004 - 与前一篇文章一起都是极佳的回忆文章

The Rise of Relational Databases - Chapter 6 in "Funding a Revolution"