Interesting Wired Article on the Search for Jim Gray
24 Jul 2007There’s an interesting article on Wired detailing the significant search for computing pioneer Jim Gray, lost at sea since January.
He was intense, I was intense, and we were both raised by single parents. Jim was like a mountain man who was also a brilliant scientist.” She liked to call him Mr. Database. (from Wired)
For those that don’t recognized the name, see Jim’s Wikipedia page. Jim is/was nothing short of a computing legend and many billions of personal worth have resulted from his contributions to database and transaction processing systems.
It’s truely amazing to what lengths the searchers went, it’s unfortunate that more progress wasn’t made.