Searching for Jim Gray: a technical overview

Abstract

The volunteer search for Jim Gray, lost at sea in 2007, highlights the challenges of computer-aided emergency response.

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Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Computers in other domains

  • Physical sciences and engineering

• Computer systems organization

  • Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks

• General and reference

  • Cross-computing tools and techniques

    • Performance

• Hardware

  • Communication hardware, interfaces and storage

• Information systems

  • World Wide Web

    • Web applications

      • Internet communications tools

• Networks

  • Network performance evaluation

  • Network services

• Security and privacy

  • Systems security

    • Operating systems security