Jim Gray Award Video

At the 2010 Microsoft Research eScience Workshop, the third Jim Gray Award was presented to Philip Bourne in recognition of his groundbreaking work in computational biology and the free dissemination of science. Philip Bourne is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California at San Diego.

Each year, Microsoft Research presents the Jim Gray eScience Award to a researcher who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of data-intensive computing. The award—named for Jim Gray, a Technical Fellow for Microsoft Research and a Turing Award winner who disappeared at sea in 2007—recognizes innovators whose work truly makes science easier for scientists.

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