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Gray, a noted database researcher, was sailing alone off the California coast.

By Charles Babcock, InformationWeek

Feb 3, 2007 12:00 AM (From the February 5, 2007 issue)

Jim Gray, 63, the noted database researcher, a veteran of IBM, Tandem Computers, and, most recently, Microsoft, remained missing at sea last week. He set out Sunday morning, Jan. 28, to sail from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge across 27 miles of ocean to the Farallon Islands.

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