Saturday, 3 February 2007

News roundup: Scientist missing at sea

The major story is that last week Jim Gray, a prominent computer scientist at Microsoft went missing off the coast of San Fransisco. The coastguard called off the search, but the efforts continue through volunteers manually scanning satellite imagery in the search for his yacht. It's pretty difficult stuff, with the images not ortho-rectified and often pretty dirty/noisey - but the hope is that with lots of volunteers scouring billions of pixels, Jim's yacht may well be found.

The Earth is square also reports that the World Wind JAVA alpha release is looking for testers - preferably people with java development experience.

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