Social Computing Lab

Previous Projects & Research

• Market mechanisms for distributed computing
• Tycoon: Market-based Resource Allocation
• Social networks
• Predicting the future
• Electronic markets and privacy
• Plog -- Digital Storytelling with Cameraphones
• Implicit Structure and Dynamics of Blogspace
• Mobile computing applications and personal privacy
• Social Harvesting of Community Knowledge
• Visualizing graphs in a zoomable interface
• Multiagent systems including
  • Dynamics of social dilemmas
  • Computational ecology
  • Informal organizations and communities of practice
• Regularities in the Internet
• Cooperative problem solving
• Distributed control of smart matter
• The relation between physics and computation, including
  • Analogies with physical phase transitions in search
  • Quantum computing search algorithms