Editing Jim Gray (computer scientist) (section)

==Legacy==
Microsoft's [[WorldWide Telescope]] software was dedicated to Gray. In 2008, [[Microsoft Research]] opened Gray Systems Lab, a research center in [[Madison, Wisconsin]], named after Jim Gray.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.microsoft.com/2008/04/23/database-pioneer-joins-microsoft-to-start-new-database-research-lab/|title=Database Pioneer Joins Microsoft to Start New Database Research Lab {{!}} Stories|date=2008-04-23|work=Stories|access-date=2018-07-19|language=en-US}}</ref>

Database conference [[SIGMOD]] confers the Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award annually to doctoral candidates researching databases.<ref>{{cite web | title=SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award | website=SIGMOD | url=https://sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/sigmod-jim-gray-doctoral-dissertation-award/ | access-date=2024-03-09}}</ref>

Each year, [[Microsoft Research]] presents the [[Jim Gray eScience Award]] to a researcher who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of [[data-intensive computing]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/escience/jim-gray-award.aspx|title=Jim Gray eScience Award - Microsoft Research|publisher=Microsoft|work=microsoft.com|access-date=2 July 2015}}</ref> Award recipients are selected for their ground-breaking, fundamental contributions to the field of eScience. Previous award winners include [[Alex Szalay]] (2007), [[Carole Goble]] (2008), [[Jeff Dozier]] (2009), [[Phil Bourne]] (2010), Mark Abbott (2011), [[Antony John Williams]] (2012), and Dr. [[David J. Lipman|David Lipman]], M.D. (2013).