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The Democrat & Chronicle newspaper of Rochester, New York, covered the weblogging conference put on by Elizabeth Lawley, Director of the Lab for Social Computing. Here is an excerpt from the article RIT explores evolution of social computing:

“Instead of talking about people interacting with computers, we’re talking about people interacting with people,” said Elizabeth Lawley, director of a new laboratory at RIT dedicated to exploring this world of “social computing.”

The lab is not a physical location, an actual laboratory, but an umbrella under which faculty members and students will do research and development. And the lab plans to offer seminars, open to the public, on different aspects of social computing.

The lab will involve not just faculty and students in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Science but also people from other disciplines, including liberal arts, said Lawley, an associate professor of information technology.