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Prestigious Computing Publication Honors Tableau Founders' Original Research
Posted by Elissa Fink on November 3, 2008
Tableau Software was recently honored by the computer science publication, Communications of the ACM (CACM). 50,000+ members of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) just received the November issue featuring a research paper by Chris Stolte, Diane Tang and Pat Hanrahan. Titled "Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Databases", it's about their invention Polaris, now called VizQL, the founding technology under Tableau Software. It also includes a foreword by Jim Gray, a pioneer, legend and brilliant mind in computer science. Jim Gray’s name may sound familiar; he’s the computer scientist who unfortunately went missing off the San Francisco Bay 2 years ago. Pat Hanrahan's recent blog entry describes how important Jim was to his and Chris's research.
Honoring and Honored by Jim Gray in November's Communications of the ACM Magazine
Posted by Pat Hanrahan on November 2, 2008
About ten years ago I was attending a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences with Jim Gray; one of our most brilliant minds in computer science, a Turing Award winner, and a legendary figure in the field of databases. Jim is a warm and open person, so I seized on the opportunity to get his input on some ideas I was exploring on how to improve people's tools for accessing and analyzing data.
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