[BNM] ANN: £5 App next Tuesday 14th @ Skiff - A.I. controlled wind-power, geo-urls, boot-strapped training start-up

[Ian Ozsvald]

We're holding the 18th £5 App next Tuesday @ TheSkiff, 8pm-10pm.  We
have three speakers, Allister has the first half on A.I. controlled
wind-power generation, Jamie and David follow-up with a geo-url
shortener service and a boot-strapped success story down from London.
Details and link to Upcoming sign-up:
http://fivepoundapp.com/meetup/18/

Blurb from the fivepoundapp site:

Allister Furley will be talking about applying 'bio-inspired' AI
techniques to the next generation of wind energy technology which uses
tethered wings (that's kites to you and me) to drive electrical
generators. He'll show some:

    ... examples of where these techniques; genetic algorithms and
neural networks, have been used in other applications, sometimes in
combination with physics simulation. Hopefully demystifying some of
these techniques and show how they can be relatively simple to
implement, including how to program a genetic algorithm in one line of
code and how to let a physics model build itself.

Next up there'll be Jamie Matthews on hereit.is:

    a simple web app which lets you create and share short urls for
geographical locations. As well as explaining what it is and how it
works, he'll be taking you on a whistle-stop tour of MVC
architectures, REST APIs, CSS3 magic, the Google Maps API, and
anything else he can squeeze into twenty minutes.

Finally David Hawes will discuss how a knee operation in July 2008 and
hence an unexpected chunk of "down time" allowed him to finish a
decent version of www.safetytrainingnetwork.co.uk, through the haze of
various painkillers, in time for a launch at the Focus on First Aid
conference:

    The launch was well received and so he decided to quit his safe
job at Avanade, in the depths of the recession, to pursue his own
ideas full-time. Eight months later he released the first
subscriptions for www.trainingcoursebooker.com enabling small Safety
Training Providers to manage their businesses and sell courses. David
will talk about what he has learnt and why he is glad he has done it
after working at large companies for the last 5 years.


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