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Liz has officially announced the new Lab for Social Computing over at many-to-many. Starting this quarter, I'll be working at the lab in addition to running the Social Computing Club. The lab and the club should be a great way to help get RIT on the map with social computing.

Currently, I'm one of two undergraduate researchers who will be working there. As of now, our main efforts lie in helping get the lab on its feet (website work, wiki work, etc.). Once that's more stationary, it'll be interesting to see what direction we start going. I'm really looking forward to diving into some code again.

I just got word that the Social Computing Club I've been helping start at RIT has been approved and is now officially recognized by the student government. This means we can now apply for student government funding, have a table at club days (there's one upcoming Nov 12th), and other such nifty things. Yay!

We meet regularly in Java Wally's. (Check our page for more details.) We are presently a discussion group, covering the latest topics in social computing, social software, communication, blogs, social networking, etc., but will eventually be working on laying the foundations for social software development at RIT. Hopefully we will be working with some companies on projects in our field in the near future.

If you're interested in learning about how the future of social interactions could be shaped by technology, have neat ideas of your own, or just want to promote your blog software - come by for one of our meetings. If you're not at RIT but want to learn more about social computing, check out our page.

UPDATE: The club has a new homepage over at the Lab for Social Computing's site. Check it out!