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Mon, 20 Dec 2004
Lab for Social Computing
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.
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Well, you've certainly made a place (or at least substantially started to) for yourself in the open source world. That's pretty impressive in itself. It sounds like you've been able to do the things that interest you there. The real trick is to get paid to do it, but I have confidence you can do that too.
The problem with most standard researchy stuff is that it tends to deviate from the Real World™ and be a bit isolated. I think that's where RIT really fits in - it's very practically-oriented. This lab [most likely] isn't going to floofy stuff that the Media Lab is famous for, but more real-world stuff. We shall see :-)
New years, Tina will be coming to Newton. I think. Plans will be made from that idea onward.
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Re: Lab for Social Computing
Sounds like fun work; almost enough to make me wish that I hadn't dropped out of school. I'd love to get into a computer science research program, or something similar: Something where I can actually concentrate on my interests, rather than getting a degree. I look at a lot of the cool work that people do for dissertations and the like, and it's just fun looking, something I'll probably miss out on.
Got any plans for new years yet?