[Robotgroup] Fwd: [fai] Forum for AI, Monday, August 25, Alexander Koller, Saarland University (at UT)

[Bryan Bishop]

On Sunday 17 August 2008, Andre Lamothe wrote:
> That would be great, if you additionally would email the heads of all
> the tech departments at UT, also the local IEEEs, and a few of the
> technical meetups like the game dev meetup has "general" public
> meetings each week, the dorkbot guys (I think they are in the RG
> anyway). This way we could always go to the one site and see what's
> going on in austin in a technical sense each week. Like "Austin360
> for smart people" :) Of course, what you really need are people to
> pro-actively search out stuff then post it there in a calendar. So
> when anyone sees anything cool coming; talks, seminars, conferences,
> for nerds, its up there.

I agree completely. It's now in beta:

http://austinbrains.org/wiki/

I'll be dumping some content into the wiki soon. I recommend everyone 
else to do the same. Starting with the robot group, dorkbot, and the 
others wouldn't be a terrible idea.

> The austin game developers conference is coming for example as well
> as MAKE. Lots of people don't know about this unless you know about
> it :) But, I feel like I am missing so many things here in austin
> since its hard to find a central geek-centric calendar.

There's also a supercomputer conference coming up. etc. :)

I'd always prefer a structured way of doing calendar events .. something 
like XML or RDF where the event is 'formally specified' and it's just a 
file that computers can download and upload to each other 
automatically, instead of all of us manually writing down this 
information on our own personal calendars which are mostly digital 
these days /anyway/ .. Argh. Inefficiency. :)

- Bryan
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