At first I went to the Baruch College website and clicked the “library” tab at the very top of the homepage. I then skimmed through various databases and entered in keywords to find this Facebook article on the new graph search tool. I must admit, I had a hard time navigated through this website, for it has been far too long since I’ve last used the Baruch databases to gather information. Finally, I went ahead and took the easy route and used our trusty friend, Google. I found the article with ease after that. I found a link with keywords that related to the article and instantly clicked it.

The author seems to know a whole lot of information of the uprising of this new Facebook search tool. She also seems to have done a lot of research on the individuals who partook in these teams (the statisticians, linguists and programmers). She seems very interested in the Facebook search tool success and failure rates.

Kathryn Hymes- a 25 year old, who was undergoing the master’s program in linguistics in Standford but left to join the team in late 2011. She then joined Amy Campbell, who received a doctorate in linguistics from the University of California Berkeley.

Loren Cheng, is 39 and led what is known as the natural language processing part of the project.

Mark Zuckerberg was also mention a good amount of times.

Key terms- “like” button

“dislike” button

“robospeak”

search