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CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar   (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)

Fridays 11:30am-12:30pm PT · Gates B3 · Open to the public
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Srinija Srinivasan


Ontological Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc.
Untangling the Web
October 18, 1996

Human Computer Interaction is increasingly engaged with the social-cultural context that people live in everyday. The city, in all its grit and glory, provides a complex and rich context in which to understand the challenges technologies face when they are adopted by people in the real world. In this presentation, I discuss three on-going research initiatives from my group at Cornell Tech in New York City which grapple with interaction in the urban context: Trashbots in the City, Urban Fingerprinting, and Communal eXtended Reality. These projects highlight different aspects of urban interaction--culture, scale, engagement--which demand new approaches from researchers and practitioners in HCI. In this talk, I will also champion the perspectives that HCI brings to the already crowded urban landscape.


<P>Srinija Srinivasan manages Yahoo! Inc.'s team of Surfers and is responsible for the design and maintenance of Yahoo!'s overall classification and organization scheme, making it the most intuitive, robust, expandable and efficient guide for information and online discovery. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Srinija was involved with the Cyc Project, a ten year artificial intelligence effort to build an immense database of human commonsense knowledge, via two companies: Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) and Cycorp.</P> <P>Among Srinija's other professional and academic accomplishments, she has published research papers in journals including Government Information Quarterly and the Journal of Technology Transfer. She was named one of &quot;The Net 50&quot; by Newsweek (December 25, 1995) and chosen one of the &quot;40 Under 40&quot; by San Francisco Focus (July 1996), and has also appeared in Fortune (March 4, 1996), Wired (May 1996), and other magazines. Srinija holds a B.S. with distinction from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems including course work in Japan, and is proficient in both written and spoken Japanese.</P>