I recently attended my first conference for women in technology (the Grace Hopper Celebration) and was blown away by how exciting it was to be surrounded by so many smart, awesome women in tech. Join up if you want that experience (on a smaller scale, of course) here in Silicon Valley! I'm picturing this as a group where we can get together socially and meet other women who share our passion for computers and technology. We could also meet up at events like She's Geeky or attend tech seminars.

A meetup for mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, and math enthusiasts.

There are demands for good mathematicians to write algorithms that can churn through billions or trillions of data points and show where patterns emerge. The Economist data issue raised this issue as follows: "During the recent financial crisis it became clear that banks and rating agencies had been relying on models which, although they required a vast amount of information to be fed in, failed to reflect financial risk in the real world. This was the first crisis to be sparked by big data—and …

Data Science! It's all the talk these days! Our team, 0xdata, wants you to join the discussion about our new fast analytics engine, H2O. H20 is ran on top of HDFS. H20 makes it possible to learn bigdata at scale. H20 guarantees one thing: move code, not data. move fast. Join our group! Join the discussion!

Computer scientists, biologists, system biologists and anyone interested in the new world of computational biology: Get together for conversations about the most fascinating topics you can think of, the new frontiers of what hackers can do in the life sciences. Look for entrepreneurs, co-founders, co-workers, research connections or just an enjoyable evening with stimulating new ideas. We may have topical presentations and a larger venue in the future. Let's just see what ideas people will have.

BASPIG is a systems-programming interest group for folks in the Silicon Valley area. If you're into programming that maxes out machine perf, works against the bare metal, self-modifies, hypervises, takes in a language, compiles, blits, message passes, saturates available bandwidth, routes, scales, replicates, reaches consensus, dispatches kernels to cores, interprets, JITs, or self-hosts, this is the group for you. We intend to have regularly scheduled talks on prodigious systems-programming top …

TechXploration is PayPal's free, tech-focused speaker series that occurs monthly in San Jose. Hear from Valley-based tech luminaries while sampling the finest craft beer and local eats! All are welcome. Join us!

This group is for software engineers interested in discussing Linux related technology. Features and issues with the kernel. Techniques for development. Embedded Linux concepts. Sessions will normally involve a free technical presentation. Thanks to lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP for the Tux picture.

BlueKai invites you to join our engineering team for bi-monthly Tech Talks. We provide the beer and pizza, and you provide the questions. BlueKai will continue to bring a variety of subject matter experts into our Cupertino office, and invite all interested engineers to stop by for informal presentations and conversation. We would love to see you at the next Tech Talk!

This is a spin-off of the Bay Area Software Quality Group which has stagnated over the past several months. The purpose of this group is to discuss all things regarding software quality engineering. This includes automation, unit testing, exploratory testing, load/performance testing and any other type of testing strategy that comes up. Although this group is centered on test engineers, there should be plenty of valuable data for others within the software development ecosystem.

The Association of C/C++ Users' Silicon Valley chapter is loosely affiliated with its UK-based parent organization. The Silicon Valley ACCU meets bi-monthly, once for a presentation and once as a workshop. Meetings are always open to the public and are free of charge.

Silicon Valley Robotics promotes the innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. We are a newly formed non-profit business association (501c6). We are also one of the largest, most exciting robotics clusters in the world and we will be hosting some great events and opportunities in the next year. We look forward to your involvement!

We offer mobile application development workshops (most are FREE) for the iOS and Android platforms. The workshops are designed to train new and experienced app developers on the latest technologies and programming techniques. Basic classes in Java and Objective-C programming are also offered. We take suggestions for new workshop topics as well. Attend a workshop, learn something new, make new friends and improve your overall app development skills. Newbies are encouraged to join since we offer …

This group welcomes both business and legal professionals. If you’re in business, you’ll inevitably come into contact with attorneys. Let’s listen to attorneys give presentations on ways to avoid legal pitfalls and/or succeed in business legal matters. In the end, you’ll learn how to avoid a lot of wasted time and legal bills. If you’re an attorney, join our events for legal professionals to help plan the presentations and to strategize, network, and collaborate among fellow attorneys and legal …

This is a Robotics and Artificial Intelligence study group. To kick off - We are going to go through online lectures in the "Intro to Robotics" course taught by Oussama Khatib at Stanford and try to solve assignments. (Prerequisite - Matrix Algebra). It is a graduate level course. We are hoping to go through two lectures per week with assignment discussion on weekend mornings. Hopefully later work on real world projects etc.

This group is about sharing and socializing about mathematical tools for software engineering. Bringing  together Events for the Brightest Talent in Technology to meet to learn new things, listen to outstanding Speakers, and grow their Connections to new levels.

Data is more difficult to understand than text, let alone Big Data, and Big data is driving Cloud Computing now. Computation Virtualization is not enough for big data, both Data virtualization and Communication Virtualization are also necessary in order to make true Real-time Big Velocity Stream Computing happen We believe the true innovation lies on Algorithmic Innovation, not just hardware innovation or software innovation. Right now algorithm creation is an art instead of a science, and we f …

Virtual reality has the potential to profoundly impact work, play, and society as a whole. Immersive virtual experiences previously known only in the realms of science fiction are finally within reach. Who should attend? SVVR is open to anyone interested in or curious about virtual reality, including developers, hackers, futurists, gamers, entrepreneurs, investors, and dreamers. The Oculus Rift, Kinect, LEAP, and Razer Hydra are the first wave of affordable consumer VR devices. Join us to discus …

This group is a meetup for people interested in the intersection between information security and the law. The group supports the work of the Information Security Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law. The ISC is a diverse group of lawyers, security experts, technologists, auditors and other professionals, whose focus includes the examination and analysis of legal, business, and technical aspects of securing the confidentiality, integrity and availability …

Interested in science fiction / fantasy / video games / vintage MTG / AD&D / having a few drinks / making some friends, and enjoying fellowship of some pure-blooded geeks every couple weeks? How is this different than other local groups? A lot of groups strongly emphasize just games, for instance. There are also groups similar to this in far-away lands, like San Francisco. I want to start a _small_ group of locals who like to get together for a variety of well-rounded geeky activities: scifi mo …

We meet almost every second and fourth Sundays every month to discuss AI topics such as: - Symbolic and SubSymbolic Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, and Artificial Intuition - Complexity theory, Model theory, Model Free Methods - Semantic Web, Ontology based systems - Robotics and Robot Ethics - Linguistics, Document understanding, and Semantics - Evolutionary Computation - GA and GP - Computer Consciousness, Novelty, and Creativity - Neuroscience, Connectome Algorithms - Human …

This is a Bayesian Statistics interest group for the San Francisco Bay Area. We will have a mix of talks, training sessions, and other events based on member interest. We also have message boards for discussions and job postings (http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Bayesians/messages/boards/).