First, I made my way to the Newman Library website through Baruch’s main website. On the libraries website I tried to search up articles using different search formats such as facebook graph search, NY times articles on facebook, and NY time facebook graph search. When i put these different topics in the database did not bring up the specific article that i was looking for. So i decided to just look it up on the NY times website itself. While looking it up on the NY times, the first search that i used was facebook graph search. Although the search was very specific, the article that i needed did not show up. So i entered facebook search and clicked the past 7 days tab and there it was “For search, Facebook had to go beyond Robospeak” by Somini Sengupta.
Somini Sengupta covers technology issues for the New York Times although she is located in San Francisco. This Indian-American journalist was born in Calcutta and raised in Canada and California. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with B.A’s in English and Development Studies.
Amongst the people named in this article were Kathryn Hymes, Amy Campbell, Loren Cheng, and Clifford I. Nass. Kathryn Hymes is 25 years old and she studies linguistics at Stanford but she left to join the facebook team in late 2011. Amy Campbell, who has also teamed up with facebook, got her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Loren Cheng at the age of 39 led the natural language part of the project for facebook. Clifford I. Nass is a professor of communication at Stanford who specializes in human-computer interaction.
Important ideas and keywords:
- search tool
- eclectic team
- teach facebook new ways to let people communicate easier
- guinea pigs
- search engine can understand 25 close synonyms
- computers= bad context
- real world trust
- social distance
- homophily
- search tool has already come under scrutiny