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Searching on the sea

On conversation with the SQL Shanghai team's product manager, we talked about the genious on the top of, within Microsoft. And inevitablely, Jim Gray's mentioned.

I feel so regret about this mysterious missing, feel like I have met him before I joined, the Turing winner in 1998.
All the best wishes to him.

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You could get the full story out of:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-08/ff_jimgray?currentPage=1

Steve Silberman 07.23.07 | 2:00 AM

It looked like a fine day for a sail. On Sunday, January 28, 2007, Microsoft researcher Jim Gray woke up on his boat, a red 40-foot fiberglass cruiser called Tenacious. The water in Gashouse Cove, a cozy marina in San Francisco Bay, was nearly flat. The 63-year-old programmer phoned his wife, Donna Carnes, who was on an annual vacation with friends in Wisconsin. He said he was heading out to the Farallon Islands, a wildlife refuge 27 miles offshore, to scatter the ashes of his mother, Ann, who died in October.

As Gray steered out through the Golden Gate to the open ocean, both tide and wind were in his favor. At 10:30 am, he called Carnes again and said that he was approaching a channel marker buoy 15 miles out. She asked him if he was wearing his harness; single-handed sailors can drown if a wave pitches them overboard and the ship sails on. "Yes, dear," he replied, saying that he would get in touch as soon as Tenacious came back into range.

A few minutes later, he left an upbeat voicemail for his daughter, Heather, in Santa Barbara. "I'm taking Granny out to her final resting place. I'm surrounded by dolphins out here. It's a little cloudy but very pleasant. No ...

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