Social Night!

Yellowhammer Brewing 2600 Clinton Ave W, Huntsville, AL, United States

Join us for our summer social! This time we’ll be inside at the private room in Yellowhammer Brewing. There is good pizza available from Earth and Stone Pizza. We’ll also have part of the patio to ourselves if you miss the Alabama heat. The private room was only available for Monday, so hopefully that doesn’t throw anyone […]

Virtual Paper Review – Unifying Embeddings: From Words to Pixels

Join us virtually this Wednesday as we crack open the magic behind modern multimodal embeddings and why they’re not just “text embeddings with pictures pasted on.” Part I – Foundations Modality alignment 101 – How contrastive pre-training pulls text, images, and video frames into one joint space. Vector anatomy – Why pixel patches, temporal frame […]

Replit AI Agent

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

This week we’ll have Jack Francis as our guest speaker! He will be talking about Replit’s AI Agent for creating applications.  “This session demonstrates how to turn an idea into a functional application in minutes using Replit’s AI Agent. We’ll demystify the mechanics behind this powerful AI coding assistant, tour the Replit platform, and then […]

SMD Field Trip

Von Braun Center 700 Monroe St SW, Huntsville, AL, United States

This week we are taking a field trip to the Space & Missile Defense Symposium! Some of us will walk the exhibit hall floor on Tuesday and early Wednesday to compile a list of companies that have AI related projects on display. Then we’ll do a group walkthrough starting at 3pm on Wednesday to visit […]

Virtual Paper Review – Agentic Memory for Autonomous Debugging

Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6 pm to continue our monthly Paper Review series! We will examine SWE-Exp, a study that equips code-repair agents with an “experience bank”, a persistent memory that turns isolated fixes into reusable knowledge. As usual we will split up the review into two segments. In the first half we […]

Group Project Roundup

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

This week we are back at HudsonAlpha to talk about group projects. There are a few projects that we’ve worked in the past that I’ll bring up again to evaluate new possibilities due to advances in LLMs. There are some other projects that folks in the community have been talking about, so we’ll see if […]

Midjourney – Beginner to Expert

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

Join us this week to learn how to get the most of out Midjourney! David Showalter will be leading this session, drawing on his experience with more than 75,000 prompts. David has used Midjourney for personal creativity and exploration, concept art for work projects and presentations, and a few finished images for work. This session will be […]

Virtual Paper Review: Occupational Implications of Generative AI

Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6 pm to continue our monthly Paper Review series! We will walk through a recent paper from Microsoft titled “Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI”. This paper uses Microsoft’s unique position to analyze 200,000 anonymized conversations with Microsoft Bing Copilot (now Microsoft Copilot) from U.S. users in […]

Lightning Talks

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

We’ll have several of our folks give short talks about what they are working on or learning.

AI Workloads with Runpod

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

I have just completed moving nearly all of transcribe.hsv.ai off of an AWS stack and over to a Runpod backend with the web ui hosted with DigitalOcean. The cost of AWS had been incrementally increasing over the years, and we’ll take a look at what the residual hosting costs were when I shut it down. This session […]

Virtual Paper Review – Structured Agentic Software Engineering

Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6 pm to continue our monthly Paper Review series! We’ll unpack how “SE 3.0” organizes human–AI teamwork so outcomes are traceable and reviewable. The paper proposes two coordinated workspaces and a set of lightweight scripts that turn vague tasks into auditable, versioned work. Part I – Foundations Why SE […]