This document appears to be notes from a presentation or discussion about open data. It mentions open data initiatives from 1994 onward and some of the benefits of open data including powering applications for education, business, and civic participation. Formats for open data like JSON and challenges of other formats like PDF are discussed. Specific open data projects are also mentioned like Taiwan's Legislative Yuan APIs and a missing person search that used satellite images and Amazon Mechanical Turk.
133. Jim Gray
Turing Award 1998
for seminal contributions todatabase and
transaction processing research and technical
leadership in system implementation.
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142. Searching For Jim Gray
Jan 27, 2007 Missing at the sea.
Feb 1, 2007
DigitalGlobe satellite scanned of the area, generating
thousands of images
Then posted to Amazon Mechanical Turk to distribute
the work of searching through them, in hopes of spotting
his boat.
Feb 16, 2007 The search was suspended.
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