Jim Gray – Communications of the ACM

Research and Advances Nov 1 2008

Technical Perspective: The Polaris Tableau System

Jim Gray nominated the Polaris paper for the Research Highlights section and wrote the first draft of this Technical Perspective in November 2006. David Patterson revised the essay in August 2008.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Author Archives

Research and Advances May 1 2005

The Lowell Database Research Self-Assessment

Database needs are changing, driven by the Internet and increasing amounts of scientific and sensor data. In this article, the authors propose research into several important new directions for database management systems.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Nov 1 2002

The World-Wide Telescope

Mining vast databases of astronomical data, this new online way to see the global structure of the universe promises to be not only a wonderful virtual telescope but an archetype for the evolution of computational science.

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Feb 1 2002

What’s Next in High-Performance Computing?

We can trace the evolution from Crays, to clusters, to supercomputing centers. But where does it go from here?

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Mar 1 2001

Digital Immortality

Digital immortality, like ordinary immortality, is a continuum from enduring fame at one end to endless experience and learning at the other, stopping just short of endless life. Preserving and transmitting your ideas is one-way immortality—allowing communication with the future. Endless experience and learning is two-way immortality—allowing you, or at least part of you, to […]

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Jun 1 1992

Parallel database systems: the future of high performance database systems

Architecture and Hardware

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