Monthly Archives: January 2013

NY Times Facebook Search Article

The article was difficult to find because I used the incorrect search terms on the New York Times page, as well as the database through the library.  I had to be shown the correct search terms, and I found the article on the NY times page.

Somini Sengupta is a graduate of UC Berkeley who has received a prestigious award for reporting.  She has extensive history working for the New York Times, working in West Africa and India.  She has been writing about technology for the Times for the last year and a half.

People in the Article:

Kathryn Hymes- former masters student at Stanford

Amy Campbell- Doctorate of Linguistics from Berkeley

Loren Cheng-  Expert in natural language processing

Clifford I. Nass- Communication professor at Stanford

Keywords and Ideas:

Human Behavior, communication, search engines, homophily, restructuring code, understanding, algorithms, psychology

New York Times Facebook Search

I went to Google’s News section. Using ‘advanced search’, I looked for an article containing exact words “new york times” and at least one of these words: facebook, graph, search. Then I specified the date.

Author: Somini Sengupta: previously bureau chief in New Delhi and Dakar for NYT, graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, specializes in technology issues, received the George Polk Award for foreign reporting in 2004.

Facebook team: Kathryn Hymes, 25, left master’s program in linguistics at Stanford. Amy Campbell, doctorate in linguistics at University of California, Berkeley. Loren Cheng, 39, leader of the “natural language processing” aspect of the project.

Observers: Clifford I. Nass, professor of communication at Stanford specializing in human-computer interaction.

Key Words/Phrases: “real world trust”, “psychology”, “homophily”, “like”, “human-computer interaction”, “diverse, global audience”, “keywords”, “Human behavior is Facebook’s business”.

Facebook Article

  1. In order to find the article, Facebook-NYT link, I went to the google website and began using the search tool. I typed “new york times jan 28: facebook search” into the searcg bar and clicked the first linkn that i found that was from the NYT webiste and as it turned out, it was the right article.
  2. The artivle was written by Somini Sengupta. She graduated with honors from University of California, Berkeley. She was previously NYT bureau Chief in New Delhi and Dakar. In 2004, she was awarded George Polk Award for foreign reporting. She covers technology issues.
  3. list of names- Kathryn Hymes(25, left masters program at Stanford to join team to create “this natural, intuitive language”), Amy Campbell(earned doctorate in linguistics), Clifford I. Nass (a professor of Communications at Stanford-human-computer interactions)
  4. list of keywords/idea- facebook, search tool, ‘robospeak’, homophily(notion that people like similar kinds of people/things)

 

Esu’s first post

Facebook’s new search tool

I googled  “facebook new search nytimes”

author Somini Sengupta

She has writting numerous articles over the past several years about tech companies and internet related topics.

I do not believe that the author is qualified to report on

Kathryn Hymes, 25, who left a master’s program in linguistics at Stanford

Amy Campbell, who earned a doctorate in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley.

The article mentions how facebook has a new search program. In order to develop this facebook looked at how people searched for things and how facebook’s own computers werre limited in their capabilities to comprehend the terminology each individual uses when they search.