Jim Gray

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska () cs washington edu>
Date: February 3, 2007 11:34:46 AM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: catlett () mcs anl gov
Subject: Re Jim Gray

Dave,

Could you post this note from Charlie Catlett on IP, re Jim Gray?
Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Catlett Charlie [mailto:catlett () mcs anl gov]
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 8:29 AM
To: Ed Lazowska
Cc: Charlie Catlett
Subject: farber list

you might contact Dave- my email must not make it through is filters, as
no mention below in the IP digest.  Here is what I sent him:

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The Amazon Mechanical Turk team has created a site where there are
40,000 images from the past 2-3 days that volunteers can search and flag
images.  At mid-day today we are expecting another batch of images from
the Canadian space agency, which retasked a satellite to fly over during
the past 24 hours.


MTurk Site (where you can help):
http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=J0XZ58STDWJZ5QY4F9M0

NYT Update:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/technology/03search.html?_r=1&ref=tech
nology&oref=slogin

February 3, 2007

Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Hunt for Colleague

By KATIE HAFNER
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2 — When James Gray failed to return home from a  
sailing trip on Sunday night, Silicon Valley’s best and brightest  
went out to help find him.

After all, Dr. Gray, 63, a Microsoft researcher, is one of their own.

The United States Coast Guard, which started a search Sunday night,  
suspended it on Thursday, after sending aircraft and boats to scour  
132,000 square miles of ocean, stretching from the Channel Islands in  
Southern California to the Oregon border. Teams turned up nothing,  
not so much as a shard of aluminum hull or a swatch of sail from Dr.  
Gray’s 40-foot sailboat, Tenacious.

In the meantime, as word swept through the high-technology community,  
dozens of Dr. Gray’s colleagues, friends and former students began  
banding together on Monday to supplement the Coast Guard’s efforts  
with the tool they know best: computer technology.

The flurry of activity, which began in earnest on Tuesday, escalated  
as the days and nights passed. A veritable Who’s Who of computer  
scientists from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, NASA and universities  
across the country spent sleepless nights writing ad hoc software,  
creating a blog and reconfiguring satellite images so that dozens of  
volunteers could pore over them, searching for a speck of red hull  
and white deck among a sea of gray pixels.



<snip .. djf>



Microsoft Search Update:
http://research.microsoft.com/news/featurestories/publish/Gray.aspx

SDSC Image Mirror Site:
ftp://bg-login2.sdsc.edu/

UTexas Image Analysis Site:
http://magic.csr.utexas.edu/tenacious.htm

FaceBook Group "Help Find Jim Gray":
http://uchicago.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2231333457



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