Ars Mathematica

Jim Gray, the 1998 Turing Award winner, has gone missing on a sailing trip off the coast of California to scatter his mother’s ashes.

His book on the inner workings of databases, Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques, is very good.

Update. Cosmic Variance has more about Gray. He was a major contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

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