Michael Stonebraker
Abstract
This short paper is intended to describe for the layman why Jim Gray won so many awards, culminating in his being selected to receive the 1998 ACM Turing Award, arguably the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science". It briefly summarizes his main contributions to our field.
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- Why did Jim Gray win the Turing Award?
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