[Air-L] some yahoo questions

[Michael Zimmer]

Srinija Srinivasan was Yahoo's fifth employee, and as a graduate from  
Stanford's Symbolic Systems program, she was tasked with creating  
Yahoo's early ontology and classification system. While currently (I  
think) Yahoo's Editor-in-Chief, I at the start she was nick-named the  
"Ontological Yahoo".

Srinija spoke at NYU a few years back,[1] and I think Helen Nissenbaum  
has stayed in touch with her if you need to make contact.

[1] http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/ili/colloquia/pastcolloquia/index.htm

-michael.

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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
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On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
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> 2. what were the names of the people (usually Bay Area students) who
> laboriously constructed the hierachy of categories in Yahoo. Such as:
> Academic Institutions > Universities > Canada > Ontario, etc.