Microsoft people cube: six degrees of lianliankan

Author: Microsoft Research Asia research group relations search

The concept of six degrees space from Harvard University's social psychologists Mir Grande El designed experimental "chain letters."

In 1967, Mir Grande El wrote a letter in the name of a stock broker, ask each received this letter will forward this to believe and that broker relations closest friends. Mir Grande El to 160 friends sent out this letter. As a result most letters after five or six times I have arrived at the hands of the broker.

Six degrees-space theory reflects an objective rule: any two people in the world has not gap between 361 degrees, nor 100 degrees, only six degrees.

Have an interesting story, one in Germany Frankfurt open barbecue shop in Turkey who want to find him and famous movie stars Marlon Brando ·.

A local newspaper that this thing is very challenging, we launched a survey of all news staff for help. A few months later, the newspaper of the employees concluded: starring Marlon Brando · the film "the man is a bit of color on the filmmakers of his daughter's heated sisters boyfriend colleagues is the Turkey people in California, a friend of mine. Thus, the Turkey people and Marlon Brando · just after six individual personal is established.

One cubic relationship search from more than one billion Chinese Web pages to automatically extract the names of people and their relationship to form an Internet social network in the world.

Based on this social network, we launched a six-degree search. Search through six degrees, you can easily find any two people on the Internet name of the relationship path; if your system automatically recommended six degrees search results are not satisfactory, you can interact with the system until you find your satisfaction in the relationship path; you can also put the six degrees of relationship with your friends.

For example, let's search for Guo jingjing and Stephen Chow's six degrees of relationship:

Where:

Is a system-calculated Guo jingjing and Stephen Chow's six degrees of relationship chain, but below is Guo jingjing and Stephen Chow's six degrees of relationship Sau:

If your system-recommended six degrees of relationship is not satisfied, you can click on the connected people to customize.

For example, click Tian Liang:

The system gives the most relevant and Tian Liang people for you to choose from.

If you feel that the most relevant and Tian Liang is Fu mingxia Fu mingxia, click on the corresponding circle, she was joined in relationships in the chain:

If you cannot determine and Tian Liang most relevant people who? no problem!

Click on the "share" button:

Copy this link to your friends, they can help you determine the most relevant and Tian Liang (such as yeyiqian) again to share a new linked to you:

You can continue to look for and the most relevant person yeyiqian until you find the most satisfactory six degrees.

Then, click on the "six degrees show" button to see the new relationship show six degrees:

Click on the "share" button to share six degrees show to your friends:

You'll also find yourself and friends of six degrees of relationship, send a link to a friend to share, give him or her a surprise! also hesitant to try anything, rush people cube six degrees search! your opinions would be a great help to us, we are looking forward to your feedback.

Quick links (one cubic new features):

Six degrees lianliankan (Silverlight): http://renlifang.msra.cn/6du.aspx

(Flash)：http://renlifang.msra.cn/6dumap.aspx

Information diagram (Silverlight): http://renlifang.msra.cn/news.aspx

(Flash)：http://renlifang.msra.cn/newsMap.aspx

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