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In the latest RIT News and Events publication, the Lab for Social Computing was featured as a cover story. Here is an excerpt from the article entitled RIT opens first 'social computing' lab:

RIT, internationally recognized as a leader in computing education, recognizes the need for more research into cyber interaction and has established a groundbreaking lab for "social computing." RIT is the first academic institution to offer research of this kind at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

The social computing lab is part of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences' new research initiative-Center for Advancing the Study of Cyberinfrastructure. Elizabeth Lane Lawley, associate professor of information technology, is the lab's director.

"Considering the importance of the forms of social software that are altering the way people organize political campaigns, report the news and form social networks, it is particularly important to put together a research group of experienced scholars who are versed in both the academic disciplines and personally immersed in social software practices," explains board member Rheingold.