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. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
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.