Editing Jim Gray (computer scientist) (section)

==Early years and personal life==
Gray was born in [[San Francisco]], the second child of Ann Emma Sanbrailo, a teacher, and James Able Gray, who was in the [[U.S. Army]]; the family moved to [[Rome]], [[Italy]], where Gray spent most of the first three years of his life; he learned to speak [[Italian language|Italian]] before English. The family then moved to [[Virginia]], spending about four years there, until Gray's parents divorced, after which he returned to San Francisco with his mother. His father, an amateur inventor, patented a design for a ribbon cartridge for [[typewriter]]s that earned him a substantial royalty stream.<ref name="oralhist"/>

After being turned down for the [[Air Force Academy]] he entered the [[University of California, Berkeley]] as a freshman in 1961.  To help pay for college, he worked as a [[Cooperative education|co-op]] for [[General Dynamics]], where he learned to use a [[Monroe calculator]].  Discouraged by his chemistry grades, he left Berkeley for six months, returning after an experience in industry he later described as "dreadful".<ref name="oralhist"/> Gray earned his [[B.S.]] in engineering mathematics (Math and Statistics) in 1966.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faircom.com/ace/enl_29_jimgray_t.php|title=Biography of Dr. Jim Gray|work=faircom.com|access-date=2 July 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703072957/http://www.faircom.com/ace/enl_29_jimgray_t.php|archive-date=3 July 2015}}</ref>

After marrying, Gray moved with his wife Loretta to [[New Jersey]], his wife's home state; she worked as a teacher and he worked at [[Bell Labs]] on a digital simulation that was to be part of [[Multics]]. At Bell, he worked three days a week and spent two days as a Master's student at [[New York University]]'s [[Courant Institute]]. After a year they traveled for several months before settling again in Berkeley, where Gray entered graduate school with [[Michael A. Harrison]] as his advisor. In 1969 he received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[programming language]]s, then did two years of [[Postdoctoral researcher|postdoctoral work]] for IBM.<ref name="oralhist"/>

While at Berkeley, Gray and Loretta had a daughter; they were later divorced. His second wife was Donna Carnes.