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110 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES database consistency, and how a protocol known as "twophase locking" could be used to ensure that two or more transactions are serializable with respect to each other without having to understand the semantics of the transactions. Jim's pioneering research on transactions at IBM in the 1970s provides the foundation for today's world of electronic commerce: every time someone uses an ATM, reserves a seat on an airplane, or purchases an item on the Web, they are relying on the mechanisms that Jim first developed.
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J A M E S N . G R AY 111 of ACM Fellows (1994)
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