Friday, February 02, 2007

Help find Jim Gray with Amazon Mechanical Turk

The coast guard has had to call off the search for Jim Gray which I mentioned in a previous post - this is understandable, they did more than they could reasonably be expected to. As a testament to the impact that Jim has had on the technology community, the search continues and now everyone can help. From Werner Vogels blog:

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.

So where do you come in? Follow the link to review satellite images and flag possible sightings.

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