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Computer scientist Jim Gray is missing at sea.

His sailboat looks like this:

Amazon has acquired satellite images of the ocean in the area around his last known location. They look like this:

You can help look for him. Maybe we can find him. I don't know the guy, but I like to think he would do the same for me.

Update 2/6:

During the last 5 days, Mechanical Turk workers looked at more than 560,000 images from 3 satellites, covering nearly 3,500 square miles of ocean. A group of experts is currently reviewing the images that workers identified, and sending their results to the appropriate authorities.

More information about the search is available at: http://helpfindjim.com