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Jim Gray Dead

Jim Gray
KindPerson
Born1944
Died2012
StatusDead
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Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Defined the transaction — ACID as we know it — and won the 1998 Turing Award; lost at sea in 2007, declared dead 2012.

Defined the transaction — ACID, two-phase commit, isolation levels — and built System R's locking.\n\nTuring Award 1998; disappeared at sea in 2007 — declared dead 2012.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_(computer_scientist)