Help find Jim Gray (computer scientist lost at sea) via satellite photos

[flashbacck]

Jim Gray is the microsoft scientist that went boating around San Fransisco and is missing. The coast guard stopped their search on Thursday, but Amazon has paid for a satellite sweep of the area and has posted photos for people to manual flip through in an effort to find his boat.

more (and better) explanation here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/03/help-find-jim-gray-with-web-20/

 

[amish]

marked for when i get bored at home

 

[kalster]

Its pretty cool , but wouldn't it be more efficient to use some sort of image processing software do this and throw lots of cpu power at it

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: kalster
Its pretty cool , but wouldn't it be more efficient to use some sort of image processing software do this and throw lots of cpu power at it

and what exactly would you tell it to look for?

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats

Originally posted by: kalster
Its pretty cool , but wouldn't it be more efficient to use some sort of image processing software do this and throw lots of cpu power at it

and what exactly would you tell it to look for?

A man in a boat. Duh. :roll:

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats

Originally posted by: kalster
Its pretty cool , but wouldn't it be more efficient to use some sort of image processing software do this and throw lots of cpu power at it

and what exactly would you tell it to look for?

<CSI>Just enhance the satelite photos and tell it to search for Jim Gray. His photo is bound to be in some sort of government database.</CSI>

 

[Phokus]

Wonder if the guy had some GPS tracking device

 

[yowolabi]

Originally posted by: Phokus
Wonder if the guy had some GPS tracking device

This thread is the best evidence that he did not.

 

[KLin]

So why did Amazon pay for it and not Microsoft?

 

[AMCRambler]

Originally posted by: KLin
So why did Amazon pay for it and not Microsoft?

He was working on a bug fix for their new Vista Server cluster, lol!