A gathering of all those interested in the study of signs and meaning systems in the digital space. Open to a variety of disciplines: academics advertising professionals independent researchers computer scientists digital anthropologists linguists designers We'll meet every month to talk about the relationship between semiotics and digital technology, covering topics around: traditional semiotics computational semiotics computational linguistics user experience interface design interaction desig …

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs221/ I'm one of the 20,000+ student that signed up for Professors Thrun and Norvig's AI course (in three days???, I think they're targeting 200,000) and I know I'd like to participate in a local group. If you're in the course, please do become part of our local NYC group.  The speaker events aren't necessarily going to follow the course. Unless, of course, you'd like to propose and secure a speaker who can do so. I'm more than happy to discuss this. SEE DISCUSSION …

… Sometimes we also invite guest speakers – past guests include Columbia University bioethicist and author Jacob Appel; the co-founder of Givewell, Holden Karnofsky; the president of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Michael Vassar; and the A.I. researcher and rationality blogger Eliezer Yudkowsky. To give you an idea of what our meetings tend to be about, here are a few representative examples: Five Minute Lectures |  Everyone was invited to give an informal five-minute talk …

These are not your typical software engineering events.   Our events cover topics related to software engineering along with business but aim to change the perspective of those who attend.  Our focus is on emerging technologies such as Big Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, 3D printing, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Semantic Web technologies, alongside more traditional topics like Ruby on Rails, HTML5, PHP, node.js, and Python.    We reach out to the entire New York metropol …

We meet informally to share information about robotics technologies, projects, resources, and opportunities. Please join us!

Are you interested/excited/worried about the 'Singularity' as authors like Ray Kurzweil coined the time of ever increasing speed of technological innovation? I'd like to find others interested in this subject to exchange thoughts, ideas, book tips, laughter and generally good company.

This group is for readers of the two blogs Less Wrong and Overcoming Bias in the NYC area to meet up and have discussions. Generally, these are blogs about the topic of rationality: how to believe true things, and how to accomplish your goals.  Anyone who is interested in rationality should come to the meetups, although it helps if you have read the two blogs to have common ground.

Universal Modeling is about building software to model the world. Computational modeling is about finding the right abstractions, structures, and representations to model real-world phenomena, objects, and actions using software. In game development, it means modeling physics and interactions. In social networks, it's representing friends and "likes" in the social graph. For artificial intelligence, it's creating a picture of perceptions and decisions. In human systems, it's about modeling workf …

This group is for everyone interested in building flying robots (a/k/a UAV, UAS, or Drone) using open source platforms such as Ardupilot, Paparrazzi, Gluon, etc.

This is a study group dedicated to working through the book "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Christopher Bishop. It is a comprehensive introduction to the field of machine learning and is repeatedly recommended by practitioners in the field. At each meetup we will have people talk about a section of the book and afterwards we'll discuss solutions to "homework" problems from the last talk. To do well with this meetup you should have an understanding of basic calculus and a wil …