iKOZ » Jim Gray http://blog.kosso.co.uk { memoirs and scars of an interactive multimedia veteran } Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:12:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 You Can Help Find Jim Gray http://blog.kosso.co.uk/2007/02/04/you-can-help-find-jim-gray/ http://blog.kosso.co.uk/2007/02/04/you-can-help-find-jim-gray/#comments Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:24:04 +0000 kosso http://kosso.co.uk/wp_blog/?p=326 Hey YOU! Yes, ‘YOU’ – you know, ‘Person Of The Year‘. Well it sounds like your time has come to try save someone.

Computer science icon Jim Gray mysteriously disappeared after a solo trip with his sail boat outside San Francisco Bay. The coast guard has been searching for 4 days but has not been able to locate anything, not even debris. On Thursday 3 private planes searched through the coastal areas and they also returned unsuccessful.

Amazon has stepped in to help the helpers. They have done a fresh satellite sweep of the area and stored the images on their S3 storage service.

Then they’ve created a task on their Mechanical Turk service to allow volunteers to scan the images to look for the boat.

BRILLIANT IDEA! I really hope they find this guy. Alive.

GO HERE NOW 

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