At Science House (www.sciencehouse.com), our mission is to bring people together to promote and advance science. We do this by helping scientists turn innovative ideas into successful startup businesses; by funding exciting science and math education projects for kids; and by connecting scientists with investors, entrepreneurs, politicians, reporters, job opportunities, volunteer projects, and much more. We will be holding a series of lunch and dinner sessions in Manhattan restaurants in which …

This is a users group for anyone interested in computational issues in science. All skill levels are welcome.

DaniWeb, one of the world's top I.T. discussion forum communities invites all techies to join us at our HQ on Long Island on the second Wednesday of every month for pizza, refreshments, networking, movies, fun and friends. We'd like to give our fellow ITs (developers, programmers, ITs and all around geeks) a chance to see the office, meet each other and have discussions, exchange ideas, work, notes or just have fun, on us. You don't have to be a registered DaniWeb forum member to attend but we c …

This meetup exists because I was damn tired of being the only black person at other tech meetups. We aim to be a network of developers in NYC interested in becoming better, learning from each other and networking. Developers of all skill levels are welcome, from experienced hardcore, neckbeard hackers, to n00bs. If you want to be awesome, or more awesome, I hope you can find yourself at home here.    If you're an MBA who's never written a line of code, and doesn't want to, this probably isn't th …

We are DASCE, a coalition of designers, artists, scientists, culturists, and engineers. We support one another in creating multidisciplinary works that push the boundaries in each of our fields. DASCE is (d)esign, (a)rt, (s)cience, (c)ulture, and (e)ngineering. DASCE is an opportunity to learn, create, and thrive.   Our Sponsor: Metropolitan Art Center & Services MACS provide comprehensive programs and services to our memebers. Language and Arts are one of essential communication in the world wh …

Math is the original liberal art, the first stop on any intellectual journey to understand a little more about the world. It's about trying to answer questions, not because they've been assigned out of some dusty textbook, but because the question itself is interesting and the attempt is more interesting still. It's about learning for the sake of learning, studying for the sake of studying. This group is about math for math's sake. The School of Mathematics was founded to cultivate a natural an …

We'll schedule meetups based on your ideas, so pick a paper you wanna read, plug it into ideas and let's get it started!

If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library (did you just write a library to access the Meetup API in Go!?), whatever. We're language and software/hardware agnostic, so it's all fair game. After you present, it's an open f …

A group to discuss machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, knowledge representation, and artificial intelligence. Meetings will cover research papers and algorithms in the field. We'll also try to occasionally bring in a speaker to talk about their work.

Hackdays is a meetup based on the philosophy that: You're a lot more productive when there's a time limit When learning to code, the fastest way to learn is to make something The best way to be introduced to new programming concepts is by interacting with other hackers You don't have to be a code ninja - a lot of Hackdays participants are brand new to programming. There are plenty of experienced CS students and hackers around to help. If you're a current college student (CS or otherwise) and w …

nyhacker is a non-profit connector and mentorship organization led by hackers, for hackers. Our mission is to sustain and grow a hacker culture through shared resources, mentorship, programming, and opportunities. Please use this group to propose and organize your own nyhacker events and programs. If you need funding, volunteers, help, or anything else email us at brandon@nyhacker.org.   tl;dr -- free events, pizza, beer, jobs, and funding for hackers (by hackers).   Please Note: Our events …

The Thalesians are a group of dedicated professionals with an interest in finance, economics, mathematics, computer science, and synergetics, not necessarily in that order.  We are currently based in London, New York and San Francisco. Please visit our home page: The Thalesians - http://www.thalesians.com/

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 …

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, and volumetric 3D displays and cameras are taking us. Everyone is welcome - from advanced hardware h …

NYC Predictive Analytics is a non-profit professional group that meets monthly to discuss diverse topics in predictive analytics and applied machine learning.  We are a group 1000+ members strong comprised of analysts, computer scientists, engineers, executives, entrepreneurs and students with a deep interest in these fields & related technologies. Meeting topics are varied and can focus on, as examples, new trends and technologies, best practices for development in big-data environments, and fu …

… ,ScoutMob,Pepsi,Nielsen Mobile,Yipit,Federated Media,Converseon,OutDoor Bound,Brand New World,MocoSpace,Appsavvy,MTV Networks,Hearst/iCrossing,Weber Shandwick,AKQA,R/GA,Whole Foods,Vitrue,Clickable,Buddy Media,Passenger,Havas Media Contacts,Audience Science,Porter Novelli,Econsultancy,AdMeld,Ketchum,Invite Media,Deep Focus,Digitas,Peer 39,LiveWorld,360i,Publicis,Carrot Creative        Our program usually follows this outline: 6:00-7:00 - Pre-Networking 7:00-8:00 - Key Opinion Leader / Moderate …