Forum to exchange ideas, discuss trends, learn about new Microsoft technologies, and having a good time with other talented Solution Architects that put Microsoft Technologies to work in innovative ways... Considering SEMAT? Software engineering is gravely hampered today by immature practices. Specific problems include: • The prevalence of fads more typical of fashion industry than of an engineering discipline. • The lack of a sound, widely accepted theoretical basis. • The huge number of …

Welcome engineers and technologists in the New York area. Whether you are a hands on software engineer, quality engineer, or a person just interested in advanced technologies, you will enjoy these meetups. Hosted monthly at Google's NYC offices, these talks will cover a variety of topics of strong interest to the NYC technology community. Speakers will be enlisted from the local community (including, but not limited to, Google engineers). Topics will range across the spectrum of computer science …

Introduction This group is for anyone who likes producing electronic music using software, and/or wishes to learn new production skills, other software products, find out about various plug-ins, and take their mixes to the next level. There is no particular skill requirement to join the group. However if you are a beginner, we recommend you at least try a demo version of a popular DAW software package, and watch some free tutorials on youtube before coming to your first meeting. We mostly concen …

I love FPGAs. To me, they're a fascinating, exotic computer architecture. To others, they're high-bandwidth video processors, high frequency trading engines, network coordinators, and ASIC prototype platforms. Some people just want to use FPGAs for their hobbies, because they're curious. This group is for all of you. We'll meet to talk about the things we're doing with FPGAs--the languages we're using, the systems we're building, how we manage design flows and complexity, and other things of int …

The most active robotics group in NYC. Discuss, collaborate, and build all sorts of robots with other enthusiasts.

An attempt to reboot Grey Thumb Society: a group of scientists, engineers, hackers, artists, and hobbyists with a strong interest in artificial life, artificial intelligence, biology, complex systems, and other related topics.

Membership is comprised of Women either in the Information Security field or wanting to enter the field. The purpose of this group is to advance women in Information Security by promoting networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing, and opportunities. Regular workshops will be offered to bridge the gap of theory and/or minimal hands-on labs from a course you took or self-studying. You will get to learn and practice in an environment of like-minded women. Workshops will be led by SME's in …

After an enthusiastic 1st meetup, January 16, 2013, we are very pleased to continue to build the Bronx tech community.  Everyone is welcome: entrepreneurs, coder, investors, educators, designers & artists, journalists, and people who just want to learn what is out there - whether you currently live in the Bronx or not. The location will change - probably with every meet up - so that we can use these opportunities to give exposure to all of the interesting and accessible venues available. Hope to …

Twitter New York welcomes software engineers and technologists who are interested in learning about our engineering projects and initiatives. While we have made great progress, there are lots of massive technical challenges to solve. With millions of  active users on Twitter, we're always working on ways to scale our products and play with massive amounts of realtime data. Our New York based engineering teams own the Discover tab, working on new approaches to search quality and building highly s …

NYC's data science community is full of brilliant, incredibly talented people. We started this group to create a central location to showcase the amazing work New York's data scientists are doing and help awesome people meet one another. This meetup aims to serve the technical community—data scientists, software engineers, hackers, and statisticians. Our events will vary from introductory to advanced, but are always intended to provide new ideas, concepts and tools to help you solve your hardest …

Whether you are a newbie looking to break into the networking field or an experienced professional who wants to finally get the respected CCNA certification under their belt, this is the group for you! While our primary goal is to help people study for the Cisco CCNA certification exams, we will be discussing a variety of networking topics that are relevant to a starting and advancing in a career in the Cisco networking field. We will also be covering topics related to CCENT, Network+, ICND1, IC …

This is a group for computer Engineers interested in social good. We are going to focus on solving complex problems in order to create cutting edge technology to overcome one of the greatest challenges of our time - how to improve K-12 education by implementing technology.

This is for clever people who have an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math, in the Bergen County/NYC area. We don't intend to specialize in any single field. All having at least some interest in a technical field are welcome While catering to older singles - and thereby including a social aspect - anyone is welcome. We propose to have discussions, share jokes, puns and puzzles, and assist each other as far as possible. No "famous presenters" are anticipated. Rather, meetings will …

This group brings together business people who have a real passion for utilizing New Media to create business growth, as well as a desire to stay on top of the latest ever-evolving technologies and marketing methods. Well, what IS New Media?  ...boush put it nicely: New Media Definition: New media is the fusion of traditional media and communications with Internet technology. More than what it is, new media defines itself by what it is not. It is not traditional media: radio, television, print a …

This group is for data hackers, scientists, analysts, statisticians, engineers, enthusiasts, gurus, ninjas, wizards - whatever your preferred label, if you possess hands-on experience with data and use it to solve problems, then this group is for you. We'll cover a wide range of data topics, mostly those relevant to the tech industry: prediction, visualization, data cleaning, real-time reporting, user tracking, split testing, etc... The group is language agnostic but will emphasize ubiquitous/op …

Technology Against Terrorism is creating a community of Software Engineers coming together to meet like-minded Techies and exchange ideas and best practices in the evolving Tech scene in NYC. Within this community we are promoting mentoring along with professional development within a general forum for Software Engineers to share their experiences. And we plan to have fun doing it. Software engineers are also welcomed to join this group to gain knowledge and give feedback on what they seek from …

New York City Animation Studios is creating a community of Animation Software Engineers coming together to meet like-minded Software Engineers and exchange ideas and best practices in the evolving Animation scene in New York City. Within this community we are promoting mentoring along with professional development within a general forum for Animation Software Engineers to share their experiences. And we plan to have fun doing it. Fellow Animators are also welcomed to join this group to gain know …