The purpose of our group is to provide a forum for discussing past, present and future trends and topics in robotics. Hardware, software and related subjects will be covered. Theoretical as well as practical information will be presented. You should join Robot Enthusiasts Group if: You want to learn the latest information about robotics. You enjoy watching and learning at your own pace - we place our meetings and other robotic content (videos of meetings, documents, etc.) online, so you can rev …

The NYC Lync User Group is targeted at IT Pros and Developers interested in Microsoft Unified Communications. Our goal is to provide the NYC area with a vast amount of valuable information as it relates to all forms of Microsoft Unified Communications. Our meetings will include both Technical and Business information relating to Lync 2010, and other components of the Microsoft UC product group.   Our First Meeting will be happening in January 2012!

A professional networking group for those involved in creating taxonomies, controlled vocabularies and classification schemes for information and/or content. Whether you're a "lumper", a "splitter", or somewhere in between, if you're interested in organizing information professionally, please join us to network with other taxonomists in the NYC area.

Gathering of people interested in search and discovery and the related fields -- information gathering, extraction, and retrieval, natural language processing, text analytics, data mining, sentiment detection, named entity recognition... Some example technologies that would be nice to cover are Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Mahout, UIMA, GATE, OpenNLP, Hadoop, HBase, Katta, etc. The plan is to have more or less regular meetups and share experiences involving any of the target topics. Initial meetu …

… What we're into: information architecture (ontologies, taxonomies, metadata), semantic web, UX, UI, development, programming, data-mining, database management and other information exchange technologies We host three basic types of events: Socials: where we all get together under one roof, talk shop and drink beverages Education Intensives: where we all get together to learn something Project labs: where we all get together and work on a specific project   Keep up with  all the memb …

… The International Networking Council also offers participating members opportunities to be Featured Speakers at informational seminars, focus groups and networking events.  As well as be invited to forums that feature Guest Speakers from across the globe.   Jennafer Steigerwald Connect to me on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennasteigerwald   Connect to INC. on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/groups/International-Networking-Council-4297959?gid=4297959&trk=group-name

SharePoint is a large and complex platform. There are many sources for technical information, but we have found there is not enough help on the business side. We deal with issues like: * Taxonomy * Governance * Project Planning * Scope Management * Adoption * Change Management * and many others In the People-Process-Technology triangle, we focus on the corners that deal with People & Process.

… Topics will range across the spectrum of computer science and software engineering, including information retrieval, user interfaces, programming languages, and computer security. In particular, there will be a track devoted to best practices for quality engineering and automation / engineering productivity (e.g. automated testing, building testing frameworks, etc). There will also be talks on business topics that are highly relevant to software engineers (e.g. entrepreneurship, future of publis …

The Enterprise Search User Group is a SharePoint based community with a focus on Enterprise Search aimed to provide valuable and timely information to its members. Its primary goal is to provide a forum that encourages disparate practices and business groups to come together and share thoughts, ideas, successes and failures, to cultivate a borderless body of knowledge.

If you are a SAP user or professional in the New York metro Area and would like to share around SAP and address business challenges, join the group! We welcome Consultants, Independent Contractors, and Business Users. Technical, Functional, ECC, BW, SCM, etc, etc. Job seekers and posters, please feel free to join and post your information in the forum.

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.

We're a community of content strategists and other professionals working in interactive technology. We meet to network, provide mutual support, share knowledge, improve our skills, and contribute to the growth of our discipline. If you have a professional interest in web or digital content, information architecture, interaction design, or user experience, please join us!

This group is for the hypnotically curious. What is Hypnosis? How does one become a hypnotist? What can Hypnosis do for me? What's the difference between NLP and hypnosis? Can you make my spouse do the dishes? (No) All of these questions can be answered and more. Demos, Raffles, Lectures, Factioid presentations are presented. Amatuers and Professionals a like are welcome to present. Anyone is welcome to come and as always, its completely informal! There is no charge to attend, there is no press …

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. Our mission is to make application security visible, so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about true application security risks. Everyone is free to participate in OWASP and all of our materials are available under a free and open software license.

… We shall together “refine” this initial vision of the group as the new information about future unfolds! For now, let us strive together to improve our general management & entrepreneurial acumen! We will try to host events on weekday evenings and weekend afternoons at a “real-world” venue in Manhattan. Hopefully, we can all take advantage of this unique learning opportunity. Many MBAs, mid-career managers, and entrepreneurial-minded individuals will find meetings & forums to be invaluable. Jo …

… Open to a variety of disciplines: academics advertising professionals independent researchers computer scientists digital anthropologists linguists designers We'll meet every month to talk about the relationship between semiotics and digital technology, covering topics around: traditional semiotics computational semiotics computational linguistics user experience interface design interaction design information architecture robotics/intelligent machines human-computer interaction