in physical space, (2) we design social processes that allow others to replicate and evolve those micro-institutions, and (3) we write software that enables those social processes. We use this process to create more robust, decentralized, human-scale systems in our cities. We are particularly focused on reinventing our current systems for learning, agriculture, and transportation."The current research projects at the MIT social computing lab include The Dog Programming Language, Wildflower Montessori, and You Are Here. A broad overview of what to expect from newly started Wildflower Montessori is as follows:"Wildflower Montessori School is a pilot Lab School and the first in a new network of learning centers. Its aim is to be an experiment in a new learning environment, blurring the boundaries between coffee shops and schools, between home-schooling and institutional schooling, between tactile, multisensory methods and abstract thinking. Wildflower will serve as a research platform to test new ideas in advancing the Montessori Method in the context of modern fluencies, as well as to test how to direct the organic growth of a social system that fosters the growth and connection of such schools." Conferences Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) SIGCHI See also Computer-mediated communication Game theory Folksonomy Groupware Human-based computation Human-centered computing Multi-agent system Open innovation Social choice Social machine Social network Social software engineering Sociology Symbiotic intelligence Web 2.0 Research institutions MIT Media Lab Cosmos Lab GroupLens Research HCII References Introduction to Computational Social Science: Principles and Applications . textbook by Claudio Cioffi-Revilla Published at December 31,2013.page 2,3 External links Peer-reviewed overview of Social Computing by Tom Erickson (IBM Research) and Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo! Research) Social Machines - Computing means connecting - Wade Roush, MIT Technology Review, August 2005 Microsoft Research - Social Computing Group Home IBM Research Social Computing Group University of Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre iCrossing ebook What is Social Media? - Antony Mayfield, 2007 You Are Here: Social Computing Snapshots Socially Intelligent Computing Talk Social Computing, special edition of the Communications of the ACM, edited by Douglas Schuler, Volume 37, Issue 1 (January 1994), Pages: 28 - 108 Theoretical foundations of Social Computation Social media Cyberpsychology Persuasion Crowdsourcing