Editing Jim Gray (computer scientist) (section)

{{Short description|American computer scientist}}
{{Infobox person
| name        = Jim Gray 
| image       = Jim Gray Computing in the 21st Century 2006.jpg
| alt         = 
| caption     = Gray in 2006
| birth_name  = James Nicholas Gray
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1944|1|12}}<ref name="wisc">{{cite web | title= DeWitt Undergraduate CS Scholarship: Dr. James Gray | url= http://www.cs.wisc.edu/awards/scholarships.dewitt.html | publisher= [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] | access-date= 2010-01-18 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100223013949/http://www.cs.wisc.edu/awards/scholarships.dewitt.html | archive-date= 2010-02-23 | url-status= dead }}</ref>
| birth_place = [[San Francisco]], California<ref name="oralhist">Oral History Interview with Jim Gray [purl.umn.edu/107339 Synopsis] at [[Charles Babbage Institute]], [[University of Minnesota]]. 3 January 2002. Retrieved 2010-01-19.</ref>
| disappeared_date   = {{Disappeared date and age|2007|1|28|1944|1|12}}
| disappeared_place  = Waters near San Francisco
| disappeared_status = [[Declared death in absentia|Declared dead ''in absentia'']]<br />{{Death date and age|2012|1|28|1944|1|12}}
| nationality = American
| spouse      = Loretta (divorced), Donna&nbsp;Carnes (widowed)
| children    = 1 (daughter)
| occupation  = Computer scientist
| education   = [[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]], [[Master of Science|MS]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])<br>[[New York University]]
| employer    = {{Plainlist|
* [[IBM]]
* [[Tandem Computers]]
* [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]
*  [[Microsoft]]}}
| known_for   = Work on [[database system|database]] and [[transaction processing]] systems
| awards      = [[Turing Award]] (1998)<ref name="turing">{{Cite journal | last1 = Gray | first1 = J. | doi = 10.1145/602382.602401 | title = What next?: A dozen information-technology research goals | journal = Journal of the ACM | volume = 50 | pages = 41–57 | year = 2003 | url = http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/68660/ms_tr_99_50_turingtalk.pdf| arxiv = cs/9911005| s2cid = 10336312 }} Jim Gray Turing Award lecture</ref><br>[[International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium#IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award|IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award]] (1998)
}}
'''James Nicholas Gray''' (1944 – [[declared dead in absentia]] 2012) was an American [[computer scientist]] who received the [[Turing Award]] in 1998 "for seminal contributions to [[database]] and [[transaction processing]] research and technical leadership in system implementation".<ref>{{cite news|last=Gray|first=Jim|title=Jim Gray - A.M. Turing Award Winner|year=1998|publisher=ACM|url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/gray_3649936.cfm}}</ref>