Help find Jim Gray

If you don’t already know, Jim Gray, a computer scientist and Turing Award winner has disappeared at sea on Jan 28th 2007 while solo sailing his boat on a trip to Farallon Island near San Fransisco. His friend, Werner Vogel – Amazon’s CTO, has harnessed the help of Amazon’s Mechnical Turk to get people to search for any interesting items in a couple of satellite images. If users mark that these images are worth further investigations they will be treated as such. [Read More]