Special Interest Groups
Special Interest Groups are professional-led cohorts that meet biweekly to discuss, design, and theorize on topics at the frontier of protocol research. Each group is focused on an area that has shown particular promise for advancing the study of protocols. New members are welcome — join the Discord and introduce yourself before attending a session.
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Mathematical and logical modeling of protocols, developing underlying formal sciences with applications across fields including cryptography and healthcare.
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Exploring analogies and metaphors for understanding memory and its relationship to protocols, at the intersection of cognitive science, infrastructure, and institutional design.
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Business applications of protocols, including AI adoption and organizational coordination, with case studies published in Protocolized.
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An emerging genre exploration group developing protocol fiction — primarily for Protocolized magazine — as a mode of inquiry into how protocols shape worlds.
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Studying and developing protocols for onchain robotics — examining how decentralized coordination, blockchain infrastructure, and robots and physical AI intersect to create new classes of protocol design challenges. An applied research group equally focused on protocol design and building the robots to test them.
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Studying long-range historical modeling and prediction, drawing on quantitative history, complexity science, and protocol theory to develop frameworks for understanding civilizational-scale dynamics. Maintains worldmachines.org.
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