Urgent: Help find Jim Gray

Niners of the World,

As you may have read in the news, now that the Coast Guard called off the search effort, his friends and colleagues have setup up a great effort to continue the hunt.

Amazon.com has posted satellite images in their Mechanical Turk site, so the general public can now help with visually scanning satellite images for Jim's boat.

You can go to http://www.mturk.com, make a search for Jim Gray, login to you Amazon account and then click the Work On Hit button.

We owe him, and he is a fellow niner too!

Please join me!

Here is the link that will send you directly to the satellite images:

http://www.mturk.com/mturk/startiterator?iteartorSearchSpec=HITGroupSearch%23T%231%2310%23-1%23T%23%21keyword_list%212%21rO0ABXQAA0ppbQ--%21Reward%216%21rO0ABXQABDAuMDA-%21%23%21NumHITs%211%21%23%21

Are we supposed to be able to clik on "No, this image contains nothing of interest"? It doesn't do anything for me.

Before it works you have to click on the yellow "Accept HIT" button above. Does this help?

From time to time, it seems that we run out of HITs. If it happens to you, please keep doing searchs for "Jim Gray" in the top search text box until more HITs appear.

Thank you.

DiegoV wrote:



From time to time, it seems that we run out of HITs. If it happens to you, please keep doing searchs for "Jim Gray" in the top search text box until more HITs appear.

Thank you.

Interestng tidbit:

According to Harvard's thesis document tracker, interest in James Gray's PhD thesis has surged in 2007 compared to other years.

DiegoV wrote:

Before it works you have to click on the yellow "Accept HIT" button above. Does this help?

Oh, now I get it

Tried that out but they sure implemented it in a rush:

The image doesn't fit in lower resolution screens without scrolling, the captcha image didn't appear and the process is somewhat confusing as the buttons do not work until you sign in to amazon account.

I came across it already and put in some results during luch time. Much better than half an hour of blah blah with cow-orkers. Didn't find anything yet but that's also a result. Hope we can find something, anything.

Tried it, came across no result except for one picture that showed a banana-shaped white object (as in, whiter than those other objects you see on the pictures) about the same size as the sample boat. May have been a damaged/capsized one, but it was probably nothing. Still submitted it for closer inspection, though.

However, after a while I ran into the CAPTCHA problem where it didn't show the CAPTCHA image, so I was unable to continue.