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James Nicholas Gray
American computer scientist
Quick Facts
- Born:
- Jan. 12, 1944, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.
- Disappeared:
- Jan. 28, 2007, near San Francisco
- Awards And Honors:
- Turing Award (1998)
- Subjects Of Study:
- database
- transaction processing
James Nicholas Gray (born Jan. 12, 1944, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.—disappeared Jan. 28, 2007, near San Francisco) was an American computer scientist and winner of the 1998 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his “seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation.” Gray attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a bachelor’s degree (1966) in mathematics and engineering and—following a year off to work at Bell Laboratories (1966–67)—the school’s first doctorate in computer science (1969). He remained at Berkeley for an IBM postdoctoral fellowship (1969–71) before working at ...(100 of 391 words)