… 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 Technologies - Taking the pain out of game development by David Helgason, Unity Technologies Sirikata: Open Source Virtual Worlds by Daniel Horn, Henrik Bennetsen. Stanford Graphics Lab, Stanford Humanities Lab Ray Tracing with the NVIDIA OptiX …

The purpose of this meetup group is to discuss GlusterFS - the world's greatest, open source distributed storage system.

The number of Bitcoin users around the world is growing at a lightening pace. This Meetup Group is designed for Bitcoin users, merchants, monetary exchange dealers, developers, and consumers -- anyone who's interested in the success of the new totally anonymous digital currency called Bitcoin. Additionally, it acts as a mutual aid society, and a business networking group. Bitcoin Meet-ups in Other Cities Around the World DC - Washington http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinDC NY - New York …

Cloud Slam is developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in cloud computing, looking at core process and strategies in the rapidly shifting world. We create thought provoking conference panels, workshops, and tutorials which are selected to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud.

This is a place for Executive Assistants, Professional Assistants and Administrative Professionals (Project Managers, Chiefs of staff-you know who you are!) to network and create connectivity within our industry. The mission and goal of this meet up is to, above all, create a robust community for members to share skills, knowledge and create supportive networks for each other and the clients we serve. Whether you are with a venture capital firm or support clients remotely, this is an opportunity …

  Looking for ways to connect with fellow experiential travelers in-person around the globe? Join an AFAR Meetup! AFAR enables the experiential traveler virtually but we also think that talking in person—about travel, culture, food, and many other potential shared interests—is pretty fantastic. AFAR.com members and AFAR magazine subscribers have shown interest in connecting with each other offline worldwide, so we’d like to encourage anyone to attend and organize AFAR events in their own city …

Welcome to Bay Area Eucalyptus Cloud Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises,  start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing …

… The plan is to host regular virtual meet ups, via live video, so people can participate from all over the world.   Please note, this is an experiment.

Are you a meetup organizer, co-organizer or assistant organizer? Join our network of meetup group leaders from the greater San Francisco Bay Area and help us create a more face-to-face meetup community. We organize formal and informal activities for meetup leaders to enjoy and get better at what we do--bring people together around common interests in a world that is increasingly distracting and virtual. This network is: SOCIAL: Meet other organizers and have some fun SUPPORTIVE: Vent about, laug …

… To that end, we invite our partners in other cities join The Ed-Tech Meetup virtually. Every Friday at 1pm EST, we meet on Twitter using #edmeet to share our learnings and engage with other education advocates around the world to realize positive systemic (or disruptive) change.  

NextSpace is the workplace for the new economy. We provide innovative physical and virtual infrastructure that freelancers, entrepreneurs, and creative class professionals need to succeed in the 21st century knowledge economy. In an increasingly disconnected world, NextSpace creates a collaborative community that is revolutionizing the nature of work. Our business model is simple: NextSpace sells membership in that collaborative community. Our members come from a wide variety of industries: sof …