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Microsoftâs HoloLens is a pretty impressive device which runs on the Windows Holographic platform. With the HoloLens, users can use Universal Windows Apps, which means, many of the new Windows 10 apps are able to run on the HoloLens. Back in July, Microsoft showed off Microsoft Edge and some o...
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This photo was taken during the launch event of Microsoft windows 8 , it took place in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia ..
The small white cup here is the famous traditional arabic coffee cup , where Microsoft used it in the event, printed the logo on it , and those cups were used for serving hospitality coffee.
Microsoft's advertising platform is at the center of its Live play, sending targetted content to users based on site use and behavior
Adobe Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media David Wadhwani (left), Adobe President and Chief Executive Officer Shantanu Narayen, (right) and Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (center) announce at Adobe MAX that all 5,000 attendees will receive a Microsoft Surface Pro 3, one year subscription to Office 365 and 1TB of storage on Microsoft OneDrive on Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 in Los Angeles.
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Microsoft is now sposnoring a Nascar driver. It's Jeff Green's car.
The huge logo is on the entire car bumper and about half of the side.
Microsoft Vista RC1 running on a black Macbook (2ghz, 1gb ram) Media Center connected to my Xbox360.
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Jim Gray pictured in The Fourth Paradigm
A Few Words About Jim...
Turing award winner and american computer scientist Dr. James
Nicholas âJimâ Gray (born 1944, missing at sea on January 28, 2007)
was esteemed for his groundbreaking work as a programmer, database
expert, engineer, and researcher. He earned his Ph.D. from the Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley, in 1969âbecoming the first person to earn a doctorate
in computer science at that institution. He worked at several major high-tech companies, including Bell Labs, IBM Research, Tandem, Digital Equipment Corporation, and finally Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley.
Jim joined Microsoft in 1995 as a Senior Researcher, ultimately becoming a
Technical Fellow and managing the Bay Area Research Center (BARC). His primary research interests were large databases and transaction processing systems.
He had a longstanding interest in scalable computingâbuilding super-servers and
work group systems from commodity software and hardware. His work after 2002
focused on eScience: applying computers to solve data-intensive scientific problems.
This culminated in his vision (with Alex Szalay) of a âfourth paradigmâ of science,
a logical progression of earlier, historical phases dominated by experimentation,
theory, and simulation.
Jim pioneered database technology and was among the first to develop the technology used in computerized transactions. His work helped develop e-commerce,
online ticketing, automated teller machines, and deep databases that enable the
success of todayâs high-quality modern Internet search engines.
In 1998, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in
computer science, for âseminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation.â He was appointed
an IEEE Fellow in 1982 and also received the IEEE Charles Babbage Award.
His later work in database technology has been used by oceanographers,
geologists, and astronomers. Among his accomplishments at Microsoft were the
TerraServer Web site in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey, which paved
the way for modern Internet mapping services, and his work on the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey in conjunction with the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) and
others. Microsoftâs WorldWide Telescope software, based on the latter, is dedicated
to Jim.
âJim always reached out in two waysâtechnically and personally,â says David
Vaskevitch, Microsoftâs senior corporate vice president and chief technical officer
in the Platform Technology & Strategy division. âTechnically, he was always there
first, pointing out how different the future would be than the present.â
âMany people in our industry, including me, are deeply indebted to Jim for his
intellect, his vision, and his unselfish willingness to be a teacher and a mentor,â
says Mike Olson, vice president of Embedded Technologies at Oracle Corporation.
Adds Shankar Sastry, dean of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, âJim was
a true visionary and leader in this field.â
âJimâs impact is measured not just in his technical accomplishments, but also in
the numbers of people around the world whose work he inspired,â says Rick Rashid,
senior corporate vice president at Microsoft Research.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sums up Jimâs legacy in this way: âThe impact of
his thinking is continuing to get people to think in a new way about how data and
software are redefining what it means to do science.â
Such sentiments are frequently heard from the myriad researchers, friends, and
colleagues who interacted with Jim over the years, irrespective of their own prominence and reputation. Known, loved, and respected by so many, Jim Gray needs no
introduction, so instead we dedicate this book to him and the amazing work that
continues in his absence.
âThe Editors