presents an extraordinary look at "one of the most ambitious search-and-rescue missions in history," after one of Microsoft's researchers, and his boat, went missing in the Pacific Ocean. It's cartography meets law meets cutting edge technology. "First the Coast Guard scoured 132,000 square miles of ocean. Then a team of scientists and Silicon Valley power players turned the eyes of the global network onto the Pacific. They steered satellites and NASA planes over the Golden Gate and mobilized the search... Oceanographers and engineers from the US Navy, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute joined the effort, as did astronomers from leading universities." But Jim Gray has never been found. Read the whole thing at Wired.
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I have a lot of respect for Gray and commend his achievements in granular database locking and data cube research supporting data warehousing applications, as well his involvement in the virtual earth project, which many of us know as the "Live Search Maps", a.k.a. bird's-eye maps. I have no clue what happened during his sea excursion – it's quite a mystery to say the least. I anticipate a safe return, but as time passes, it seems futile to suggest such optimism.
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