Monday, June 2. 2008

Jim Gray Tribute Coverage

The tribute for the Microsoft Researcher whose work enabled TerraServer and other online mapping was held Saturday at Berkeley. He was presumed missing at sea after setting sail last January. One element of the tribute was the announcement that the Jim Gray Chair in Computer Systems will be established at UC Berkeley, with funding from from Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce.com; Bill Gates, the chairman and co-founder of Microsoft; Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google; Mike Stonebraker, co-founder of Ingres; and the Hewlett Foundation. Donation information is the Chronicle article below.

- New York Times

- San Francisco Chronicle

- Seattle Times

- Information Week

- LA Times

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Microsoft at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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