Speakers, Movies, and Topics needed

We need new material for the next few meetings. Something like

- People in the group that want to give a talk on any AI related topic
- People outside the group that you know that are willing to give a talk on any AI topic
- Movies and videos to show to the group. We can bundle short ones together to fill the hour.
- Interesting questions and topics to discuss in the group, round-table fashion

If you have read an interesting AI-related book and are willing to summarize and review it in about 10-15 minutes, tell me. We could gather 4-5 of these for an hour of such short book talks.

For videos it would be most convenient if we could play them as, say, QuickTime movies on a computer. If you have other formats, tell me and we'll figure out what to do.

- Monica

Do the topics need to be *strictly* AI? The recent Genetic Algorithms talks were applicable to many fields, including AI.

Are there any areas of interest related to AI that would be applicable to the meetup? For example, would you consider things like parallel programming and data persistence? How wide/narrow of a scope is there?