Ergasiophobia's Journal: Help Find Jim Gray

As was reported on slashdot January 30th, computer scientist Jim Gray went missing at sea. As of February 1st the coast guard has given up on looking for him. However Amazon has stepped in to try to help.

Through a major effort by many people we were able to have the Digital Globe satellite make a run over the area on Thursday morning and have the data made available publicly. We have split these images into smaller tiles that can be easily scanned visually and stored into the Amazon S3 storage service. We then created tasks for reviewing these images and loaded then into the Amazon Mechanical Turk Service.

If you would like to help in finding Mr. Gray then please visit this site and go through a few images.