The Epic Search for a Tech Hero
August edition of Wired’s magazine has an article chronicling the search and rescue mission of programmer, database guru, Turing Award recipient, Jim Gray who remains missing until this day. It’s a sad and tragic story.
His disappearance prompted, according to an interview given by a veteran deputy of the Coast Guard to Mercury News, the largest strictly civilian, privately sponsored search effort ever seen. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, NASA, Oracle and a dozen other tech companies contributed to the resources and efforts to find him.
Ironically, some of the crucial technologies being used to find him were of his researches and inventions. Unfortunately in this case, it still wasn’t enough.
Update: You can read the online version of the Wired’s article here.
