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  1. A conversation about Mike Tyson
    A conversation about Mike Tyson

    with Jim Gray on Jun 30, 1997

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Jim Gray is a researcher and manager of Microsoft Research’s eScience Group.

His primary research interests are in databases and transaction processing systems – with particular focus on using computers to make scientists more productive. He continues a long-standing interest on building supercomputers with commodity components. This includes work on building fast networks, on building huge web servers with “CyberBricks”, and building very inexpensive and very high-performance storage servers.

Jim also is working with the astronomy community to build the world-wide telescope and has been active in building online databases like http://terraService.Net and http://skyserver.sdss.org. When the entire world’s astronomy data is on the Internet and is accessible as a single distributed database, the Internet will be the world’s best telescope.

He is active in the research community, is an ACM, NAE, NAS, and AAAS Fellow, and received the ACM Turing Award for his work on transaction processing. He also edits of a series of books on data management.

Source -research.microsoft.com http://research.microsoft.com/~Gray/