http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs221/ I'm one of the 20,000+ student that signed up for Professors Thrun and Norvig's AI course (in three days???, I think they're targeting 200,000) and I know I'd like to participate in a local group. If you're in the course, please do become part of our local NYC group.  The speaker events aren't necessarily going to follow the course. Unless, of course, you'd like to propose and secure a speaker who can do so. I'm more than happy to discuss this. SEE DISCUSSION …