James ("Jim") P. Gray is currently presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County, California. He is a Libertarian candidate for United States Senate. He is also the author of the 2001 book "Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It."

External links

• Judge Jim Gray's website

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James Gray received the Turing Award for his work in Transaction Processing. He founded, and now works in, the Microsoft Research team in the Bay Area. His research interests include databases and Transaction Processing.

External links

• http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/
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