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

  • Authors:

  • Ed Lazowska

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record - Tribute to honor Jim Gray
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

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.