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500 special relationships: Jim as a mentor to faculty and students

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There are hundreds of us in academia and industry who consider ourselves FoJ: Friends of Jim. Jim invested so deeply and so uniquely in every one of us that we each felt we must be "the chosen one." And we were: Jim had so much to give that he was able to choose hundreds of us, shaping our careers and our lives.

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Anon., et al. 1985. A Measure of Transaction Processing Power. Datamation 31, 7 (April 1985), pp. 112--118. http://research.microsoft.com/~Gray/papers/AMeasureOfTransactionProcessingPower.pdf
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Hamilton, James. 2008. What Would Jim Do? Perspectives - James Hamilton's Blog (January 2008). http://mvdirona.com/jrh/perspectives/2008/01/31/JimGrayTribute.aspx
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Winslett, Marianne. 2003. Jim Gray Speaks Out: On Chasing the Object-Relational Rainbow, Why Performance Is a Nonissue, Bad Ideas that Went Good, Reinventing the Field, Sailboats, Lunatic Fringe Papers, Whether to Try for a Home Run, and More. SIGMOD Record 32, 1 (March 2003). http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0303/Gray SI GMOD Interview Final.pdf
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Gray, Jim. 1999. What's Next? A Dozen Information Technology Research Goals. Technical Report MS-TR-99-50, Microsoft Research, Advanced Technology Division, Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052 (June 1999). ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/tr-99-50.pdf

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    cover image ACM SIGMOD Record
    ACM SIGMOD Record  Volume 37, Issue 2
    Tribute to honor Jim Gray
    June 2008
    79 pages
    ISSN:0163-5808
    DOI:10.1145/1379387
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    Published: 01 June 2008
    Published in SIGMOD Volume 37, Issue 2

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