Founded in 2007, the Sydney Data Miners group was set up to have informal meetups with those involved in all aspects of data mining from natural language processing, artificial intelligence, web mining and search engines to computational linguistics. In 2009, and with just 200 members, the group was acquired by Datarati. Throughout 2010, Datarati hosted events with senior executives from Optus, eBay, Neilsen Online and IBM. In 2011 Datarati hosted senior executives from Tobii, Deloitte Analyti …

This group was set up by Cryonicists and people interested in Life Extension generally, but is also aimed at people who are interested in the Technological Singularity, Transhumanism, Extropianism etc, i.e. the infinite possibilities for humans but also the great dangers we face (including our affect on the rest of the biosphere) and how we should be handling them. We have regular guest speakers, little presentations by representative people and general discussions about the issues that greatly …