Famous Computer Scientist James Gray has gone missing. After a large scale search the Coast Guard gave up last Thursday. Thankfully, Amazon has stepped in…they arranged for a satellite sweep of the area and stored the images on their S3 storage service. Now you can help find him.

Amazon has created a task on their Mechanical Turk service to allow volunteers to scan the images to look for the boat.

It’s going to be a difficult task, and who knows if we’ll find anything useful, but if you have time, you have the chance to help save a man’s life from the comfort of your own home…that’s probably the coolest thing the Internet has ever been able to do.

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