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Curiosity, Clarity, and Caring: How Jim Gray’s Passion for Learning, Teaching, and People Changed Computing

Author(s): Pat Helland
(Collection III)

This book in the ACM Turing Award series focuses on the life and contributions of Jim Gray. Jim was dedicated to the mentoring, nurturing, and development of individuals and the scientific community with a special emphasis on computer science education, and his curiosity and passion for learning led him into new and uncharted areas within systems computing. The book follows Jim’s exploration of eight major areas of systems computing: systems, transactions, databases, availability, performance, sort, scale, and eScience.


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