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.
- LA Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/02 at 06:00 AM |
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