We're a London study group on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). SICP is a classic programming text (even if you don't program in lisp) and the breadth and depth of the ideas in the book will certainly improve your craft. But don't take my word for it. Peter Norvig gave a review of it: ".... The book doesn't directly tell you how to design and write an object-oriented program using the subset of object-oriented principles that show up in the syntax of Java or C++. Rather, …

The purpose of this group is to bring together people who have a passion for technology in education. Are you interested in programming, computer science, IT, or just integrating great technology into the classroom? Come and join us for monthly activities to learn from each other and develop new ideas! Feel free to suggest ideas for great events happening in London or around the UK.

DON'T JUST WATCH SCI-FI ON TV. LIVE THE ADVENTURES YOURSELF WITH LIVE ACTION ROLE PLAY (LARP). Do you fancy travelling through the Stargate? Have you wanted to save the planet from Cybermen or Daleks? Live Action Role Playing, known as LARP, is stepping into a character's shoes and literally living the actions and consequences that they bring upon themselves. There's no computer consoles or tabletop gaming, this is as real an environment as we can make it - you're really out there fighting monst …

A collaborative environment for pushing the boundary of citizen science and engineering regardless of qualifications. Looking forward to hacking satellite and space in general, environment monitoring device, brain computer interface (etc, if you can think of more, ping me) together. Oh, robots too if you have/want one of those! Let's make science into tangible projects! If you have any suggestions or feedback, don't hesitate to get in touch: contactme [at] citizeninventor [dot] com

A warm welcome to Big Data / Data Science / Data Analytics Jobs! With Data growing at such an exponential rate, organisations are flocking to find solutions of how to manage their Critical Data. This has created a new breed of expertise that is in somewhat short supply. This group aims to bring together a community with a common interest in analysing, understanding and monetising Big Data, create opportunities for those who are able to do so and solve a few problems for Organisations’ who are no …

This group is for people who want to develop fundamental programming skills for teaching ICT to at prirmary and secondary level. This is an informal gathering.  Just bring a laptop, books and knowledge to share. Most sessions are organised with the first section dedicated to one programme and then the remainder of the session given over to discussion and freestyle programming.

Members helping members learn programming! Our chosen language is Python. There are many resources on the web to help get started with Python, Udacity's CS101 course (https://bitly.com/udacs101) is a great place to start. Hopefully someone can take the initiative to start a meetup where we can get together, and help each other through the CS101 course.

For those who are geeks and like to socialise in a geeky way. This group is to cover all events from irreverent conversations, geeky quizzes, geek jokes (don't get me started on coding jokes).

After seeing so many successful financial Meetup groups in the US we have noticed the absence of something similar over here. Therefore we thought that London as a financial capital must have one too. So we decided to start our own financial meetup group for London. This group aims for everyone from the industry, whether you work for a hedge fund, a bank, a financial service provider, academia, your own business or you are just passionate about finance, financial engineering, modelling or tradin …

Zappers is a peer sharing community designed for those who believe in learning from each other and sharing testing knowledge. Zappers are from all walks of life, some are professional software testers for large international corporations, whilst others are computer science students looking to see how their skills match up, anyone with an interest in software testing would be most welcome to join us. Zappers believe in raising the standard of software testing internationally so most Zappers come …

Wanting to learn how to write apps for the Android platform and not finding a meetup group, I decided to form this group. My 25 years software development experience has taught me that a small team of focused people from diverse backgrounds with a common aim always make further progress than an individual. You should join us, if you have good PC and internet literacy, a passion for software development, little or no experience of Android, and a windows laptop. A computer science degree is not a …

London’s Artificial Intelligence Futurists This is a group for anyone interested in, or even wants to shape, the future. In particular we are focusing on the development and the impact of Artificial (General) Intelligence (AGI), Human Level Human Level Machine Intelligence (HLMI), Machine Learning, Robotics, Personal Robots, Intelligent Agents, Semantic Networks, theories about Human Intelligence, etc. The acceleration of technology provides more and more possibilities to achieve HLMI. According …

Welcome to the London Big-O Meetup! This is London's first meetup focusing on data structures and algorithms, regardless of programming language. I started this meetup for a few reasons. There's a general lack of similar events for people interested in the theory or maths behind the tools we use every day—dictionaries, sets, lists and regular expressions are things we all take for granted, but when you reach a large enough scale, the differences between implementations begin to show. It's import …

Writing can be difficult and lonely. Sometimes we need to get out and away from our own distractions and excuses. Pubs, cafes and parks are nice but wouldn't it also be good to be part of a group of writers? So let's work quietly together, gently encouraging each other to soldier on, and minding each others things when we have to go to the loo... THE IDEA Is simple. We are a group of serious writers that meet somewhere comfortable and write for 2, 3 or 4 hours straight. Each person works on th …

Sharing the Solitude of Writing This group was inspired by the London Writing Together group and is for people in or near Brighton who write or who seriously want to. The format is simple: a host organises a session anywhere comfortable, e.g. in a café or peaceful pub, in their lounge, or maybe in a random nearby village. We then write for 2, 3 or 4 hours straight. We work on our own and set our own targets. What you write is up to you. The whole point is: you are not alone in the creative proce …

Big Data presentations, discussions, hack events and taught sessions in Brighton. Open to everyone across interests, specialisms and skill levels - join if you're intrested in learning more about Big Data or sharing your knowledge with the community. Some topics we might cover What is Big Data? What is big data exactly? What new things does big data make possible, and who are they useful to? Who's buying it - what's the business case? Data Science What is a data scientist? Stats 101 for …

DataScienceLab - A meetup for data scientists, or those interested in data science (hacking data) to come together to build an output focussed community directed towards the practical aspects or the doing of data science. The primary focus of this group will be on doing good with data science through hackathons and other data hacking projects & events arranged in association with organisations actively involved in the making our world into a better place; charities, NGOs etc. Meetup schedule wil …

The Big Data Debate is a meetup group where like-minded professionals can get together and discuss relevant and timely topics in big data. We facilitate discussion by bringing you highly regarded speakers across a range of disciplines and allowing you the chance to become an interactive part of the discussion. Members of this group include a range of professionals working across all areas of big data in and around London. Meetups are held once a month at a central London location and include sp …

Welcome to Big Data London - Europe's biggest Big Data community. Big Data London brings together people working on Big Data projects. If you're using Hadoop, Apache Cassandra or any other NoSQL related technology, if you're involved with web apps, enterprise apps, data analytics, financial apps or storage at massive scale, or simply want to learn more about the space, then you'll find something interesting here. So come and join us.

This group is for women who love data; big or small. Whether you work in data or want to know what the fuss is all about. Let's get together to share experiences, learn and shout about our achievements. The group format will be directed by the needs of it's members. At whatever stage of your career and whatever your specialty be it a Statistician, Developer, Visualizer, Journalist or a little of everything we hope to have a place for everyone to develop. We hope to get women working on interesti …

Calling all data do-gooders: DataKind UK is a meetup for the United Kingdom chapter of DataKind, a community of data scientists and non-profits working together to better collect, analyze, and visualize data in the service of humanity. DataKind encourages local meetups to share ideas, collaborate across communities, discuss new tools and practices, and help bring about a better world through data for social causes. Come hang out with other conscientious dataists and tech-savvy social innovators …

A Five-Unit Course on Theories of Consciousness What is consciousness? Why do we have it? What’s it for? This course is an attempt to survey the ways in which people have tried to answer these questions. It’s a journey through the most prominent theories of consciousness. The course won’t tell you what consciousness is, but it will (hopefully) give you a well-developed awareness of the theories and issues thrown up by the struggles of many, varied theories to answer this and related questions. U …