Madison professionals, enthusiasts, and hobbyists who share a passion for great JavaScript, and making JavaScript work for them and their users through terrific, engaging, and intuitive apps. Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/madjs

A group for those in Chicago who develop or implement enterprise search software. We'll discuss new search solutions, specific products (Autonomy, Endeca, Fast, Dieselpoint, Lucene, Solr, Google Search Appliance), ideas, and maybe a bit of "big data" technology like Hadoop as it relates to search. Folks into text analytics also welcome. Great for developers or academics who work in information retrieval.

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and,  in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just …

MadCloud promotes the understanding and use of cloud computing technology in the Madison and surrounding area. Cloud computing is revolutionizing how businesses operate by replacing on-premises legacy applications with Cloud-based offerings and offering nearly unlimited scaling of data-intensive and high-volume Web applications.  Developers and entrepreneurs are leveraging the always-on, available anywhere nature of the Cloud to build innovative applications and develop new business models. Memb …

Are you a student, techy, entrepreneur, or weekend-warrior who uses tools from Machine Learning in your research, business applications, or small projects? Would you like to meet like minded people from the Northwestern and Chicago community who work with and develop these tools? Would you like to expand your knowledge of Machine Learning/Data Mining and its applications, and/or get involved in hackathons with a diverse group of data scientists?  Then come check us out! PLEASE RSVP FOR EVENTS SO …

Google Developer Group (GDG) Schaumburg meets on the 1st or 2nd Wednesday of the month. If you are interested in Google technologies (Android, App Engine, Chrome and etc.) or just love tech in general then please join our group.

The purpose of this group is to bring governments, developers, and communities together in a common mission to use public data to create digital tools that serve civic needs and promote economic development. Go to http://illinoisopentech.org/ for the latest updates on the Illinois Open Technology (ILOpenTech). The first set of meetups will be held in our four pilot communities: Belleville, Champaign, Rockford and South Suburbs centered around the ILOpenTech Challenge, a multi-month initiative th …

Smart TV - Digital Signage is a group for designers, software developers and resellers of media and software applications deployed to Smart TV and Digital Signage devices. Our primary focus will be software development, product and service vendors, device platforms (including kiosk form factors), matters pertaining to content creation, encoding, formatting of media and last but not least matters pertaining to the advocacy and support of local businesses interested in using or already using Smart …