About Jim Gray

Jim Gray is editor of the Performance Handbook for Database and Transaction Processing Systems, and co-author of Transaction Processing Concepts and Techniques. He holds doctorates in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Stuttgart. He belongs to the National Academy of Engineering, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Presidential Advisory Committee on Information Technology. He is editor of the Morgan Kaufmann series on Data Management. In 1998, Jim was awarded the prestigious ACM Turing Award, and received Microsoft's Distinguished Engineer promotion. He has also been a McKay Fellow at Berkeley.

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