Jim Gray
American computer scientist
James Nicholas Gray was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation". Wikipedia
Born: January 12, 1944, San Francisco, CA
Awards: Turing Award
Education: University of California, Berkeley (1969) and University of California, Berkeley (1966)
Academic advisor: Michael A. Harrison
Organization founded: National Writing Project
Disappeared: January 28, 2007 (aged 63); Waters near San Francisco