Jim Gray Missing at Sea

Wednesday January 31st 2007
Filed Under Current Events, Map Servers, United States 

Jim Gray

Update (2/2/07):  The Associated Press is reporting that the Coast Guard has called off their four-day search for Jim Gray. 

“Although this search is suspended, if new information arises, it will be investigated,” said Capt. David Swatland, the Coast Guard’s deputy sector commander for the Northern California area.  “It’s one of the most frustrating and unusual cases we’ve had.”

Jim Gray, known most notably in the geoworld for his work creating the Terraserver, is being reported as missing at sea.  On Sunday, Jim Gray left San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge area for the Farrallon Islands, a journey of about 27 miles.  Charles Babcock on InformationWeek reports:

Now the Coast Guard’s helicopter, its C-130 search plane, two 87-foot patrol boats, a 41-foot Coast Guard utility boat and an Alameda County maritime patrol boat are searching 1,750 square miles of ocean for him.

According to his web page, Jim Gray is a researcher and manager of Microsoft Research’s eScience Group.   His areas of interest include “working with the astronomy community to build the world-wide telescope and has been active in building online databases like http://terraService.Net and http://skyserver.sdss.org.”

Updates on the search effort for Jim Gray are being posted on the Oakleaf Blog. 

Source: InformationWeek

 



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