Colossus in 2012! Discuss, Learn, Implement, our Silicon Overlords!

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

This is an interest group about robots. This includes toys, gadgets, robotics and tools. We also assemble and share stories, projects, accessories and other activities to help promote our fascination. You should join if you are just interested in robots even if you don't actually own one yet. But if you own a robot from a Sony Aibo to a Roomba--come and enjoy the camaraderie of others.

Join the local New York City forum for the Volumetric Society ( http://volumetric.org ) an eclectic group of innovators exploring the arts & sciences of a new world of natural user interfaces between body, brain, and spatially aware computing for the physical world.  Come exchange ideas, demo your projects, or just get exposed to the volumetric future that devices such as Kinect, Emotiv/MindWare, volumetric 3D displays and cameras and telematic interfaces are taking us. Everyone is welcome - fro …

Are you a woman* who loves programming and has been searching for a similar bunch of ladies to eat cupcakes and discuss code with? Are you happier discussing Ruby** than rubies over coffee? If so, you’ve come to the right place! We meet at least once a month to hack on projects, give casual 5-minute lightning talks, ask all of our technical questions, and toss around ideas together. It's a great way to make new friends, and to bounce ideas off each other to keep improving our coding skills. Thin …

Greetings from Tony Errichetti and Laurie Schroeder, Co-Directors of the Simulation Studio Network! Do you work in the medical or legal field as an actor, standardized patient, trainer of program administrator? The Simulation Studio is a professional network of Standardized Patients (SPs), SP educators, Standardized (legal) Clients (SCs) and anyone who works in the field of human or robotic patient simulations. The SP Studio is a space for exploration, study, development, creativity, conversatio …

Hudson County's one-and-only Hackerspace, the place to collaborate on high-tech projects, learn awesome skills, and meet fellow tinkerers. Check us out at 38 Jackson St. in Hoboken or online at MakerBar.com. Tweets: @MakerBar IRC: #makerbar on irc.freenode.net mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/MakerBar RSVP's are requested but not required for most of our events. For anything with an attendance limit, we must ask for some form of RSVP. Please email bert@makerbar.com if you'd prefer to …

This group is for everyone interested in building flying robots (a/k/a UAV, UAS, or Drone). We have a bias towards using open source platforms such as Ardupilot, Paparrazzi, Gluon, etc, but all are welcome.

Everybody grabs some food (you have to pay for your own, sorry), grabs a seat, and talks tech. There's no particular focus other than meeting some new people and having some interesting conversations. Credit goes out to James Dennis and Sean O'Connor for starting the first "tech breakfast" in DUMBO: http://www.meetup.com/DUMBO-Tech-Breakfast/

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 metropolitan …

A gathering of all those interested in the discussion and study of signs, meaning systems, web science, thinking, language, and knowledge in digital and web spaces. Open to all disciplines: All interested individuals are welcome, including academics, philosophers, advertising professionals, communications professionals, independent researchers, computer scientists, digital anthropologists, linguists, designers, information architects, user experience, human interaction, developers, localization, …

NYC has countless tech meet-ups and events, but where's all the hardware love? We want to bring together a strong community of folks eager to build businesses with physical products, be it a cold fusion engine or a bionic fork. Whether you're an engineer, designer, CEO, investor, or anyone interested in being a part of the hardware start-up eco-system, come join us and let's create an amazing addition to the tech scene in the Big Apple.

We want to foster an environment where individuals can come together to share knowledge and build on the ideas of others. Our motivation to start this group is to incorporate "Design Thinking" into our meetups. The big thing about design thinking is it allows people to build on the ideas of others. Instead of just having that one thread, you think about it, I come up with an idea, and then somebody from somewhere else says, "Oh that makes me think we should do this and then we could do that." A …

An attempt to reboot Grey Thumb Society: a group of scientists, engineers, hackers, artists, and hobbyists with a strong interest in artificial life, artificial intelligence, biology, complex systems, and other related topics.

Events will focus on Ruby on Rails engineering best practices and principles along with emerging Rails technologies. We will focus events on mixing Rails with new and emerging technologies as much as possible.  Examples of this will range from using Rails with Big Data and high frequency trading to using rails to develop apps for robots, and new medical devices. We will only allow the best RoR speakers to present, ensuring the quality of the content. Content will range from beginner to advanced …

JUG Events will focus on Java programming best practices and principles along with using Java with emerging technologies like Big Data, Robotics, Augmented Reality and focus in on industries like Medicine, Media, and Finance. We will only have the best speakers, food, beer, and networking available.

Tech Tuesday is the weekly open night at Hack Manhattan, a community hackerspace in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan. Stop by to chat about your projects and use our electronics tools, 3D printers, sewing machines or machine shop. Hack Manhattan is located on 137 West 14th Street between Union Square and Chelsea. We are dedicated to technology, art and craft. Our physical space is open every Tuesday evening. A smaller 3D printing foucsed group gathers on Thursday evenings, and it’s pos …

This is a group for anyone interested in research concerning artificial neural networks, deep learning, and so on. The format varies between discussion groups, guest speakers, and tutorials. Proposed topics include: training deep belief networks with unsupervised pre-training/supervised finetuning, recurrent neural networks, different optimization methods, scalable architectures for large networks across clusters, practical GPU programming (with Python!), NNs for NLP, using NNs in robotics, visu …

High Tech meetup is for Entrepreneurs and inventors who are working on cutting edge technology. This is not a meetup for just web or another exercise app. It is geared at high tech startups involved in non standard and potentially revolutionary ideas and products. Granted, everyone thinks what they make falls into that category.As an example this meetup is for people involved in material modeling, robotics, machine learning, mobile apps that are deeper than a server+table/map UI. You got the pic …