Microsoft Professional missing!

Kiran.dks · 31-01-2007, 09:26 AM

Coast Guard searching for missing Microsoft researcher
Man failed to return from a sailing trip, prompting a search of 4,000 square miles of ocean

The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting an extensive search for Jim Gray, a senior manager with Microsoft's Silicon Valley research organization, who failed to return from a sailboating trip Sunday off of San Francisco.

The Coast Guard said Tuesday that it was continuing to search 4,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and the Farallon Islands, where Gray was reportedly headed in his 40-foot sailboat Tenacious Sunday morning. He was reported missing by his wife that evening when he failed to return to their home in San Francisco as expected.

Gray, 63, was hired in 1995 to run Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, also based in San Francisco, where he researches databases and transaction processing systems, according to a biography of him on a Microsoft Web site. His particular focus is on using computers to make scientists more productive in the fields of astronomy, geography, hydrology, oceanography, biology, and health care, the site explains.

Gray, who has also worked at such technology companies as IBM, Tandem Computers, and Digital Equipment, won the ACM Turing Award in 1998 for his work on transaction processing.

The Coast Guard said it has deployed a C-130 fixed-wing aircraft, an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter, three 87-foot coastal patrol boats, and other equipment to continue the search. It has been assisted by the Alameda County (California) Sheriff's Office. No signs of Gray or the vessel have been found, the Coast Guard said.

The phone at the eScience Group's office went unanswered when IDG News Service called for comment.

Courtesy: Infoworld

kumarmohit · 31-01-2007, 10:40 AM

First James Kim and now this guy. What is the world coming to. Hope he comes out safe.

BTW did some one look in the Google campus. Considering his work profile, he might have dropped in to say hello and decided to stay.

navjotjsingh · 31-01-2007, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by kumarmohit

BTW did some one look in the Google campus. Considering his work profile, he might have dropped in to say hello and decided to stay.

Nice thinking!

gxsaurav · 31-01-2007, 05:07 PM

hmm.....conspiracy

either the penguin ate him, or he ate a rotten Apple

nikhilrao · 31-01-2007, 05:14 PM

So has he bin found ???

Kiran.dks · 31-01-2007, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by gx_saurav

hmm.....conspiracy

either the penguin ate him, or he ate a rotten Apple

lol!

31-01-2007, 06:12 PM

He must be in google to escape the torture from microsoft or some one must have kidnapped him?.

Lucky_star · 31-01-2007, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by gx_saurav

hmm.....conspiracy

either the penguin ate him, or he ate a rotten Apple

ROFL

blackpearl · 31-01-2007, 07:30 PM

Kidnapped by open source people.

navjotjsingh · 31-01-2007, 07:34 PM

What he will do there? He has knowledge of only Windows. He will be useless for Open source them. If Open Source really wanna get benefited they should kidnap Bill Gates.

And where is the thread heading. Leave alone sympathising with the victim, people are making it a Microsoft Jokes thread!!!

blackpearl · 31-01-2007, 07:46 PM

^^ They are torturing him and trying to revel Windows source code.

Lucky_star · 31-01-2007, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by blackpearl

Kidnapped by open source people.

Then he may be released under the GPL.

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Originally Posted by blackpearl

They are torturing him and trying to revel Windows source code.

How can they reveal the Whole Source Code of Windows from a single Person, who went on a Sailing trip?

kumarmohit · 31-01-2007, 10:30 PM

Since he researches databases and transaction processing systems. It not very likely that he knows Windows source code, though he might be aware of how MS keeps sales and other records etc.

Hope he comes home safe

iMav · 01-02-2007, 12:21 AM

here a man goes missing and u ppl still only think abt the MS open source war .... btw i too agree with saurav

blackpearl · 01-02-2007, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucky_star

Then he may be released under the GPL.

LOL

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How can they reveal the Whole Source Code of Windows from a single Person, who went on a Sailing trip?

Secret agents employed by the open source community has revealed that this particular person coded the BSOD. They are trying to get the source code of it so that they can implement it on the next version of Linux. After all windows' BSOD is far better than those stupid Linux problems and their amazingly complex solutions.