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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

The mysterious disappearance of Jim Gray

Wired has published a huge story -- more than 7,000 words -- about the search for Jim Gray. The Microsoft Research staffer, one of the world's great computer scientists, set sail from San Francisco on Sunday January 28 in his red 40-foot fibreglass cruiser and was never seen again.

The Coast Guard, US Navy, National Park Service and some of the world's smartest people from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and other places have contributed to the hunt, to no avail. How can someone just disappear in 2007?

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