Jim Gray Missing, please help
[Updated: This has somehow come to #3 on Google. The best place for up to date news is the Tenacious Search blog.]
On Sunday, January 28th, 2007, Jim Gray, a renowned computer scientist was reported missing at sea. As of Thursday, Feb. 1st, the US Coast Guard has called off the search, having found no trace of the boat or any of its emergency equipment.
Follow the story here.Through the generous efforts of his friends, family, various communities and agencies, detailed satellite imagery has been made available for his last known whereabouts.
At Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service, you can help. If you have a few minutes, please do.
[Update: This is the first time I’ve tried to use Mturk. I kept thinking the site was broken, and I couldn’t click on tasks. I had to click the “accept hit” button at the very bottom and be signed in.]
There is also a weblog devoted to updates on the search at
http://www.openphi.net/tenacious
I quite liked the mTurk service idea … having written a paper on the topic of task markets … so I clicked to try this innovative idea out.
Unfortunately, when I reached the 3rd screen asking for lots of information and a big long agreement to sign, I felt that was too much. I’m simply too tired to sift through all the salesware right now.
Iang – you’re not the first person to feel that way. Just remember you can lie. Lie like someone’s life depends on it.