Jim Gray at IBM: the transaction processing revolution

  • Authors:
  • Bruce G. Lindsay

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

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

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Abstract

While at the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory, in the 1970's, Dr. Jim Gray defined and developed the fundamental concepts and techniques that underlie on-line transaction processing systems. Jim Gray's pivotal contributions enabled cost efficient, on-line processing to replace paper and batch processing systems. Today, online transaction processing powers the record keeping systems that drive today's commerce, services, and government.