Jim Gray

Publication Boards

• ACM Queue (opens in new tab), Editorial Board.
• Morgan Kaufmann Data Management Series (opens in new tab), Editor

Advisory Boards

• Ordinal Corporation (opens in new tab), (they sort fast), Board Member
• National Library of Medicine (opens in new tab) (Regent)

Program Committees

• CIDR 2007 (opens in new tab) and HPTS 2007 (opens in new tab) local arrangements
• ACM Turning Award Committee
• ACM 2007 Federated Research Conferences (opens in new tab) Plenary speaker (opens in new tab) chair

Societies

• Association of Computing Machinery (opens in new tab), Fellow
• National Academy of Engineering (opens in new tab), Member, (Computer Science Section Chair)
• National Academy of Science (opens in new tab), Member,  (Membership Committee)
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences (opens in new tab), Member
• European Academy of Sciences (opens in new tab), Member

Emeritus

• National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress (2001) (opens in new tab).
• Stanford University School of Engineering (opens in new tab), Advisory Board Member
• Presidential Advisory Committee on Information Technology (opens in new tab)

• Vannevar Bush’s paper: As We May Think (opens in new tab), the 1945 Atlantic Monthly piece that is the manifesto for Information At Your Fingertips and also the Internet. In that same time Bush also wrote Science’s social contract: Science, The Endless Frontier (opens in new tab) that has guided US Science policy since then.
• Ed Lazowska (U. Washington) faculty lecture on Computer Science, a more modern discussion of the social contract with a focus on computer science.
• Alan Newell on how to do research (one hour video lecture) Desires and Diversions (opens in new tab). Sage advice for scientists on how to live our professional lives.
• Michael Lesk’s paper on “How much information is there in the world?” (opens in new tab)
• Andrew Odlyzko has a fascinating and insightful series of articles on online publishing (opens in new tab): His papers are what got me started on my goal of getting all scientific literature on the web.
• Richard Feynman’s paper: There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom (opens in new tab), explaining that computers could be very small (this predates VLSI) and the wonderful 1982 Feynman Lectures on Computationedited by Tony Hey and Robin Allen: Perseus Books; ISBN: 0738202967 that talks about how much energy, space, and time computations should take (close to zero), and an inscrutable (to me) introduction to quantum computing. There is also an out-of-print follow-on Feynman and Computation, Exploring the Limits of Computers edited by Tony Hey, ISBN: 0738200573.
• Dave Patterson’s talk on Intelligent Disks and a more recent article just talking about disk evolution: Brian Hayes “Terabyte Territory (opens in new tab),” American Scientist, V. 90, May 2002, pp. 202-208
• A nice historical piece on Moore’s law (90KB html) a 1996 student papers by Bob Schaller explaining the history of the law and some of its implications.
• What Next Revealed a talk by Adi Porobic on technology trends and a technolgoy forecast May 2002 (2 MB).