The East Bay Google Technology User Group (EBGTUG) meets on the 4th Thursday of the month in East Bay. We invite our members that develop applications using Google technology to do brief demos of 5 minutes. This is followed by a technical presentation and/or demonstration of one or more Google technologies from 7:00 to 8:00pm. The time between 8:00pm and 9:00pm is available for longer talks, extended Q&A and/or more informal networking before everyone heads home. Our general meetings will always …

Members will be able to help each other solve problems. Presenters will provide helpful information. If you're starting up a company in the Tri-Valley or even in the larger East Bay area, this is a place where you can find answers, interim C-level executives, other entrepreneurs who have found solutions to problems that are troubling you and resources of all kinds. It's a place where your success and the success of other entrepreneurs can flourish.

"The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do" ~ Steve Jobs                   Welcome!  Thank you for joining!  If you are new to Ruby on Rails or an intermediate, advanced Ruby on Rails Engineer - you will love this group!  I plan on offering the following: 1.  Variety of Ruby on Rails classes.  These classes will be offered for beginning RoR developers or intermediate/advanced level. 2.  Presentations given by guest speakers(RoR developer …

… CLINE actively leans away from engineering and toward science. There is something about the immediacy of writing code and designing hardware that grabs hold of our brain, holds us down in the trees, and won't let us float up to where we might see the forest. As a result, there is less and less science in Computer Science. Lots of practice, very little theory. CLINE is the anti-engineering prescription this valley needs but won't admit needing. Medication time! Thank you, and welcome to the jung …

… Contact CSIG with any comments or questions at mailto:pieter.humphrey@oracle.com Feel free to take a look at past Presentations and Speakers. http://coherence.oracle.com/display/CSIG/Presentations http://coherence.oracle.com/display/CSIG/Speakers Location: Oracle Conference Center 350 Oracle Parkway Room 203 Redwood Shores, CA

Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform for the San Francisco Bay Area.

Presentations, discussions, and implementations of In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) or other vehicle / automotive projects emphasizing those utilizing open source or built with open source tools.  Safety, fuel-efficiency, and innovative enabling applications beyond entertainment are especially of interest, as are fleet vehicles, farming equipment, heavy machinery, marine and aviation applications -- all sorts of intelligent transportation systems. Non-coders who are more involved in business, polic …

… http://silicon-valley.siggraph.org Recent meetings: Our annual presentation of the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, a video presentation of cutting edge computer animation from the SIGGRAPH conference, that occurs around the start of the year. Computer Vision Techniques for High-end Visual Effects by Chris Bregler and Kiran Bhat, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the VFX branch of LucasFilm Mobile Visual Computing by Kari Pulli and Radek Grzeszczuk, Nokia Research Center Unity Techn …

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.

Bay Area Search Engineering Monthly Meetup Monthly presentation on topics of interest to search software engineers. Query Recall & Expansion (synonyms, spelling, autocomplete, related search) Machine Learning for Ranking (decision trees) Factor development for ranking (page factors, ecommerce factors) Search metrics (DCG, NDCG, RPref, etc.) Hadoop & Data Mining for Search (bipartite graphs, session analysis).

… They are often unable to contribute to the technology discussions and rarely share information that will be productive to the software engineering audience.