Search Options
close
Search the following clips:
All Clips
Everyone's Clips
My Guides
Sign Up
Install
Learn More
Login
Help Find Jim Gray
RiverRed
follow
2
2-3-2007 6:30 PM
443 views
tags:
amazon
,
mechanical turk
,
jim gray
,
volunteer
Add a Comment
Login
to Comment. Not a member yet?
Sign up
Related Clips
The Big Lebowski 10th Anniversary Bowling ...
Housing Bill Passes
Electronic Papyrus: The Digital Book, Unfu...
Scientists find new clues to explain Amazo...
48 Classic Books for Download
Plankton turn tropical Atlantic into a hug...
The Seven Coolest Natural Wonders on Earth
More clips from
RiverRed
30+ Online Resources to Expand your Englis...
15 Wonderful Uses for Tea
Bookmarklets for the Web 2.0 Jedi Master
Today's Top Clips
High Speed Photography
Jupiter
Time - as an abstract idea –beautiful illustration
California becomes first state to ban trans fats
Hero
Solar Sailing in Space
When Computers Meld With Our Minds
"Time" - Wheel of Life
Scientists learn what makes auroras flare
Most Incredible Light Phenomena
visit the
Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from
February 3, 2007
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/085beabf-8f5b-4094-8abd-0377809fe587/3E04851D-4D66-4376-8D31-CD31F0025771/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/"><P>When famous computer scientist <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_N._Gray">Jim Gray</A> went missing a few days ago, the coast guard launched a large scale search that found absolutely nothing. On Thursday, they gave up.</p> <P>Then Amazon <A href="http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/02/help_find_jim_gray.html">stepped in</A>. They arranged for a satellite sweep of the area and stored the images on their <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/14/amazon-grid-storage-web-service-launches/" class="snap_nopreview">S3 storage service</A>. They then created a task on their <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/11/04/amazon-finally-shows-itself-as-the-matrix/" class="snap_nopreview">Mechanical Turk</A> service to allow volunteers to scan the images to look for the boat. It’s a tough task - the boat would only be about six pixels in size in an image, and there was a lot of cloud cover obscuring large parts of the area scanned. But volunteers are pouring in to help out.</p> <P>If you’d like to help, <A href="http://www.mturk.com/mturk/startiterator?iteartorSearchSpec=HITGroupSearch%23T%231%2310%23-1%23T%23%21Reward%216%21rO0ABXQABDAuMDA-%21requester_id%212%21rO0ABXQADkEyRTlDTDlPN1hYNUFS%21%23%21NumHITs%211%21%23%21">go to this task on Mechanical Turk</A>. You’ll be asked to view five satellite images and note any that should be looked at more closely.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3E04851D-4D66-4376-8D31-CD31F0025771/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
Clipmarks
Home
New Clips
Top Clips
Dashboard
Popular Topics
News
Life
Science
Technology
Entertainment
Get Started
Sign Up
Install Clipping Tool
How Clipping Works
Clip-to-Blog™
ClipSearch
Tools and Resources
FAQ
ClipWeek
Top Clippers
Top Tags
Site Map
About Clipmarks
About Us
Contact
Blog
Copyright
Privacy
EULA
OK
