[CAnet - news] Looking for imaging experts to help find Jim Gray - famous eScientist lost sailing

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Hi-

Over the weekend many of Jim Gray's friends worked to obtain  
satellite and aerial imagery to analyze looking for him and his 40'  
boat.  We are using two approaches- human and computer analysis.  The  
human analysis is happening via Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and this  
has involved some 6,000 volunteers looking through nearly 100,000  
images since Friday evening.  Once these volunteers flag an image as  
containing an object of interest, these images are passed to another  
group of experts who look through all of the flagged images, also  
using Mechanical Turk.

There is an overview of the process and a link to the site here:

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/02/help_find_jim_gray.html

We are looking for experts to go through the flagged images.

Thanks-
CeC


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