Picture Me Coding

Shoulders of Giants: Jim Gray

Erik Aker and Mike Mull Season 3 Episode 76

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Jim Gray was a key innovator in the area of database technology and he won the Turing Prize in 1998.  He was particularly influential with respect to the definition and formalization of transactions, and he identified and named the A, C, and D of ACID.   Gray, an avid hiker and sailor, disappeared in 2007 while sailing out of San Francisco to the Farallon Islands, and no trace of him was ever found.


https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/behind-the-code-with-jim-gray/

https://www.wired.com/2007/07/ff-jimgray-2/

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