Hi IVOA people,
I would forward en email from the PRAGMA community on Jim Gray. I hope some of you join the help search.
Cheers,
Masatoshi
>Cc: Charlie Catlett <catlett-at-mcs.anl.gov>
>From: Catlett Charlie <catlett-at-mcs.anl.gov>
>Subject: How you can Help Search for Jim Gray
>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 21:21:31 -0600
>
>Dear Pragma Friends-
>Some of you may know Jim Gray, a very well known computer scientist
>from Microsoft and a friend to many of us. On Sunday he was sailing
>in the Pacific off the coast of San Francisco and he has gone
>missing. The coast guard searched for 4 days and found no trace of
>Jim or his 40 foot boat.
>
>Many of Jim's friends have worked with various satellite and aerial
>imaging sources to collect images from this week, and images will
>continue to come in over the next few days as well. There is a site
>set up by Amazon that allows you to search image tiles - there is a
>lot of imagery to search. This site enables thousands of people to
>help with the search.
>
>If you are interested in helping, please go to the website below and
>sign up for an Amazon Mechanical Turk account (it does not cost
>anything).
>
>Best Regards-
>CeC
>
>Help Search:
>http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=J0XZ58STDWJZ5QY4F9M0
>
>Background Information:
>http://research.microsoft.com/news/featurestories/publish/Gray.aspx
>
>
>
Received on 2007-02-03Z13:19:39