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	Help Find Jim Gray

RiverRed

2-3-2007 6:30 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0ec0bc6c-0e8f-40bb-92ad-caf73b14476c/3E04851D-4D66-4376-8D31-CD31F0025771/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/"><P>When famous computer scientist <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_N._Gray">Jim Gray</A> went missing a few days ago, the coast guard launched a large scale search that found absolutely nothing. On Thursday, they gave up.</p> <P>Then Amazon <A href="http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/02/help_find_jim_gray.html">stepped in</A>. They arranged for a satellite sweep of the area and stored the images on their <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/14/amazon-grid-storage-web-service-launches/" class="snap_nopreview">S3 storage service</A>. They then created a task on their <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/11/04/amazon-finally-shows-itself-as-the-matrix/" class="snap_nopreview">Mechanical Turk</A> service to allow volunteers to scan the images to look for the boat. It’s a tough task - the boat would only be about six pixels in size in an image, and there was a lot of cloud cover obscuring large parts of the area scanned. But volunteers are pouring in to help out.</p> <P>If you’d like to help, <A href="http://www.mturk.com/mturk/startiterator?iteartorSearchSpec=HITGroupSearch%23T%231%2310%23-1%23T%23%21Reward%216%21rO0ABXQABDAuMDA-%21requester_id%212%21rO0ABXQADkEyRTlDTDlPN1hYNUFS%21%23%21NumHITs%211%21%23%21">go to this task on Mechanical Turk</A>. You’ll be asked to view five satellite images and note any that should be looked at more closely.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3E04851D-4D66-4376-8D31-CD31F0025771/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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