R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. R has an estimated one million users worldwide, and its user base is growing. While most commonly used within academia, in fields such as computational biology and applied statistics, it is gaining currency in commercial areas such as quantitative finance and business intelligence. Among R's strengths as a language are its powerful built-in tools for inferential statistics, its comp …

Meet other local programmers interested in Clojure (and other Lisps and Schemes), functional programming, concurrent programming, and other alien technology.

SF# is a group of developers in the San Francisco Bay Area who have an interest in the F# programming language.  Novices and experts are both welcome.

For Corona SDK developers to get together and discuss mobile development and technology, Corona tips and tricks, and the Lua programming language. Experienced Corona developers and newcomers are equally welcome!

SF Peninsula SD meetup, monthly networking and talks on JVM-based Languages and Agile or Test-Driven Development

Discussing and learning about the Forth programming language through: *Monthly meetings http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html *Active website http://www.forth.org/svfig/ *Email discussion list

This is a group for people in the Bay Area who are interested in Natural Language Processing. Since NLP overlaps with other fields, we may also delve into Information Retrieval and Machine Learning. If you are actively involved in NLP, or just want to learn more, please join us. Note: This group has nothing to do with Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

CLINE was established to encourage and facilitate the scientific exploration of the intersection of computation, language, information, complexity, and intelligence as they are influenced by, and influence, the process of evolution. Of particular interest to this group is the development of self-evolving systems. The assumption is that apex systems evolve toward greater and greater complexity-handling capacity. Some call this "artificial intelligence," but we have trouble with the term as it: 1 …

Learn about important new technologies in the Java ecosystem: Java, Scala, Groovy, frameworks, tools, etc. We meet on the fourth wednesday of the month in downtown Oakland. The agenda is typically: 6.30pm-7pm - networking and pizza 7pm-9pm - presentation and Q&A Its a great opportunity to  learn new technologies; network with other developers; and discover job opportunities.

Meet other developers who enjoy the agility and quality in writing automated tests. Come and hear experts demonstrate new tools and techniques. Participate in discussions on how to solve particular challenges. We target developers and expect to span both introductory and advanced subjects, including: Experience exchange, Q&A Web UI testing using Selenium or WatiN Testing embedded software Test Driven Development Behaviour Driven Development When to use stubs and mocks Google Test (C++ testing f …

A meetup group to discuss the Go Programming Language. (from golang.org) The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the …

The Silicon Valley DART Meetup aims to: * Promote the use of the DART programming language and related technologies * Educate through high-quality and applicable presentations * Induce interactive discussions and forums * Be a resource hub for whomever is interested in web development in general and DART in particular * Develop close ties and relationships with the industry mentor companies and educational institutions in the United States and worldwide

Join this small group for a step-by-step approach to learn the R language. Each session is filled with real-life examples and participants are welcome to suggest and present topics. If you have just started with R this is the perfect chance to find out about data analysis with a group of people rather than on your own.

Meetup with others in your area who are also interested in Lithuanian language, culture and travel. All ages and levels of Lithuanian language proficiency are welcome! You don’t need to speak the Lithuanian language to join or attend our meetup. We welcome your ideas, suggestions and participation in conversation, social activities and cultural programs in the San Francisco area. If you are interested in coming to any of our events, please remember to RSVP!

Bay Area Storm Users is a group for developers and companies using Twitter's Storm real-time data processing and DRPC framework. We get together to discuss best practices, usage patterns, and to exchange ideas. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of …

Lua's a fascinating, super-fast scripting language perfect for gaming and web applications. This is a very engineering-centric group for those interested in trying out Lua, or for sharing creations. Let the organizer(s) know if you're looking to sponsor, host, or speak at any of our events. We're open to suggestions!

A seminar dedicated to studying and discussing applied category theory, functors, monads, type theory, category logic, functional programming. Some basic knowledge is desired. Google group BACAT is migrating here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/bacat

This is a group for anyone interested in teaching Korean or any kind of web/mobile based programming, or anyone who want to learn Korean or programming. Yes, this is a mismatch group. All skills/speaking levels are welcome. I am starting this group because to meet others who ant to talk professional interests in English or Korean. Looking forward to meet who is working at I18N/L10N profession.

An informal meetup to talk about or develop with the Go Programming Language (golang).

This is a group for anyone interested in sharing thoughts and ideas for improving academics in Lower, Middle or High Schools. Whether you are a parent, teacher or a student we want to hear from you. Our kids are home during summer for 10 weeks or so and this would be great forum to learn what is available and what other parents do to nurture creative growth in next generation. We can have events on regular basis for idea sharing.

Learn more about Erlang, the highly concurrent programming language. Have a chance to meet fellow developers interested in Erlang/OTP, cast messages about interesting tricks and cool hacks, and -- most importantly -- fun with fun()s and a good time had by all.

This is a group for anyone interested in learning iOS mobile development. No programming experience required and we plan to hold free workshops to help people get started with learning programming fundamentals, the fundamentals of Objective-C and building real-world iOS applications.

We're bringing together the best & brightest in linguistics-related disciplines and in computer programming to solve some of the world's greatest challenges.

BASPIG is a systems-programming interest group for folks in the Silicon Valley area. If you're into programming that maxes out machine perf, works against the bare metal, self-modifies, hypervises, takes in a language, compiles, blits, message passes, saturates available bandwidth, routes, scales, replicates, reaches consensus, dispatches kernels to cores, interprets, JITs, or self-hosts, this is the group for you. We intend to have regularly scheduled talks on prodigious systems-programming top …

South Bay Competitive Programmers is a social and educational group based in the SF south bay area for people interested in programming competitions. Whether competing for solution time (like Topcoder Algorithm and Google Code Jam and many other competitions), solution performance (like topcoder marathon matches), code brevity (like Perl Golf), or robotics, when outside of a university it's much harder to meet and socialize with people who share this passion. So if you are a competitive programm …

We're here to... funct... you up. Ok... I'm sorry about the previous statement. Functional programming in javascript isn't a joke. It's serious. Like Yahoo Serious... Oh god, what's wrong with me. Functional Javascript is the language of the future. Come see why and learn about how functional programming in javascript can change your life.

This group is for San Francisco Bay-area Web and Mobile Designers/Developers who wants to barter skills. When signing up, let the group know what skills you possess and what skills you are looking to learn. For each meetup, we will pair people up with complementary skills for two hours - one hour to teach, one hour to learn. You should join if you want to learn a new programming language, a new software framework, a new designing tool, etc. The most effective way to to learn is by observing and …

A meetup to discuss Clojurescript development, tools, and apps.