With the rapid progress of urbanization and civilization on earth, urban computing is emerging as a concept where every sensor, device, person, vehicle, building, and street in the urban areas can be used as a component to probe city dynamics to further enable city-wide computing for serving people and their cities. Urban computing aims to enhance both human life and urban environment smartly through a recurrent process of sensing, mining, understanding, and improving. Urban computing also aims …

This is a group for anyone interested in contributing to a walking robot. Tech, DIY, hobbyist robotists, engineers, and investors may be interested in this. There is work for all types of people from mechanical construction, CAD design, Arduino type control, Rasberry PI brains, etc. A preliminary design has been layed out and will be provided for open source development. Specific tasks can be assigned or jump in and add your own improvements. We will meet locally in the Rochester Michigan area, …

The group meets regularly for an hour presentation, followed by a discussion. Software engineers, information architects, business analysts, technical managers who are interested in the information retrieval field are welcome to participate and present.

Elevating the craft of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) through a real, face-to-face community in Detroit. Also, check out API Craft on Google Groups to collaborate with other API craftspeople around the world.