Huntsville AI

Spring Social
2026-04-01 17:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Back Forty Beer Company, 3254 Leeman Ferry Rd SW, Huntsville, AL, 35801, United States
Good evening!
It’s time for our Spring Social! The forecast looks like rain, so we’re going to get together at Back Forty Beer Company. There’s a lot of room inside, and they also have good food.

AlphaFold 3
2026-03-25 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
Please join us for a discussion on how we study the shapes of biological molecules, leading up to the new AlphaFold 3 AI model from Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs. We will start by talking about the famous protein folding problem and how scientists used to figure out these shapes using older methods like X-ray crystallography and Ramachandran plots. From there, we will quickly review how the first AlphaFold and AlphaFold 2 models were built and why they were such a big deal for science.
Next, we will dive into what makes AlphaFold 3 a major step forward. While older versions mostly focused on proteins, this new model uses an updated design and a diffusion network to predict the 3D shapes of almost all of life’s molecules, including DNA, RNA, and drug molecules. It is much more accurate at showing how all these parts interact with each other.

Links:

https://deepmind.google/science/alphafold/
Nature Publication for AlphaFold 3
Github Repo for AlphaFold 3

Details:

Date – 03/25/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha – Executive Conference Room
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/fyi-oqjg-fiz

Virtual Paper Review: AI Labor Market Impacts
2026-03-18 18:00 - 19:30
This week, we’ll cover a recent blog post by Anthropic: “Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence” and combine that with labor statistics from the Huntsville MSA. The Huntsville Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in northern Alabama consists of Limestone and Madison counties, anchored by the city of Huntsville.
We will also look at the latest results for GDPval provided by the latest drops of GPT-5.4 and Sonnet 4.6.
My schedule for this week and last are very crazy, and there is a chance that I will be away from keyboard for this call. If that’s the case, we will dial in an have a discussion using the links below.
I also plan to present some personal findings with using the COCOMO II estimation model to reverse the SLOC and complexity of the Ag Tech project that I’m working with to show the estimated hours to build the same code that I’ve generated.

Links:

https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts
https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anthropic/EconomicIndex
https://www2.labor.alabama.gov/oes/OESTab.aspx
https://huggingface.co/datasets/openai/gdpval

Details:

Date – 03/18/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/oxb-khub-fid

Intro to OpenClaw
2026-03-04 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
This week, we’ll attempt to cover OpenClaw. Some in the group have used it, but many of us haven’t had a chance – or may just be hesitant based on the potential for hazards. So this week will be a little more of an ad-hoc discussion. If you have used OpenClaw, we would love to hear about your experience.
OpenClaw is a free, open-source, self-hosted AI agent designed to act as a 24/7 digital employee rather than just a chatbot.
It can read/write files, run terminal commands, and control a web browser. You interact with it via apps you already use, such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or Discord, rather than a proprietary web portal. It remembers your preferences, past conversations, and long-term goals, evolving into a tailored assistant over time. It can be programmed to work while you sleep—monitoring GitHub repos, checking flights, or even conducting business outreach autonomously.

Links:

https://openclaw.ai/

Details:

Date – 03/04/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha – Executive Conference Room
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/xyk-amgy-ojt

Vibe Coding Tips and Tricks
2026-02-25 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
There have been a lot of recent advancements in both models and tools used for AI assisted coding. Some of these tools are more agentic, while others are still chat-based. There has also been a lot of movement by the big AI companies to either acquihire opensource projects or use other approaches to gain an advantage.
For this session, we will share our successes and failures with using these tools. I know that we will likely have folks in the room actively using Claude Code, Codex, Cline, OpenCode, and maybe a few others. If you would like to come and share your setup, that would be appreciated as well.
Here are some of the concepts that we will try to make sense of. Each tool seems to have its own set of terminology which may or may not overlap with others.

Prompts
Specs
Tasks
Skills
Agents
Hooks
Memory Bank

Hopefully we will come to some sort of collection of practices that others entering this phase of development can use as a starting point.

Links:

I don’t know what Zencoder is, but this is a pretty good intro for spec driven development – https://docs.zencoder.ai/user-guides/tutorials/spec-driven-development-guide

Details:

Date – 02/25/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha – Executive Conference Room
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/krb-aizx-fja

Virtual Paper Review – SegementAnything3: Segment Video with Text
2026-02-11 18:00 - 19:30
Join us virtually Wednesday Feb 11th at 6 pm CST to continue our monthly Paper Review series! We will be dissecting SAM 3 (Segment Anything Model 3), a unified model that bridges the gap between geometric segmentation (clicks and boxes) and semantic understanding (text and concepts). While previous versions excelled at “segmenting that thing,” SAM 3 introduces Promptable Concept Segmentation (PCS), the ability to find, segment, and track all instances of a specific concept (e.g., “striped cat” or “red apple”) across both images and videos.
Topics we will cover :

PVS vs. PCS: The evolution from Promptable Visual Segmentation (points/masks) to Promptable Concept Segmentation (noun phrases/exemplars).
Localization-Recognition Conflict: Why forcing a model to know “where” something is often conflicts with knowing “what” it is, and how open-vocabulary detection has historically struggled with this.
Data Engine Basics: The role of human-in-the-loop vs. model-in-the-loop pipelines for generating massive-scale segmentation datasets.
Architecture: How SAM 3 fuses an image-level DETR-based detector with a memory-based video tracker using a shared Perception Encoder (PE) backbone.
Presence Head: A look at the novel “presence token” that decouples recognition (is the concept in the image?) from localization (where are the pixels?)
SA-Co dataset (4M unique concepts).
Video Disambiguation: Strategies for handling temporal ambiguity, including “masklet” suppression and periodic re-prompting during tracking failures.

Links:

Paper:
https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/segment-anything-model-3-sam-3/
Code:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam3
Demo:
https://segment-anything.com

Details:

Date – 02/11/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – VIRTUAL
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/drf-dydt-mgn

AI Symposium Recap
2026-02-04 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
We’re meeting this Wednesday at 6pm in the executive conference room at HudsonAlpha. The door is on the right as you walk up to the main entrance.
We’ll do a rundown of all of the sessions at the AI Symposium that we were able to cover. There were several slots where there were two sessions and one workshop all going at the same time, so it’s only possible to cover the entire schedule by dividing and conquering.
We’ll also capture comments that we can flow back to the organizers to prepare for next year.

Coming Up:
Next week we will have a virtual paper review led by Josh Phillips. We will be dissecting SAM 3 (Segment Anything Model 3), a unified model that bridges the gap between geometric segmentation (clicks and boxes) and semantic understanding (text and concepts). I’ll get more details out later this week.
There’s also a new monthly meetup at UAH I2C that Carl Holden (Zellus Marketing) and the ARC are starting. They are starting off with a demo of Lovable that should be interesting, as well as providing food & drinks. There is no cost for this meetup. More info at the cool Lovable site that Carl thew out there – https://ai-after-hours.lovable.app/

AI Huntsville Workforce Development Committee:
We met in January to start planning for the year and see how we can impact the workforce in the Huntsville area. The strategy that I’m advising here is that we find a way to measure the AI Literacy of the greater Huntsville workforce. Then we can put together a strategy to “move the needle” to drive adoption of AI tools that will make us more productive, while watching the risk of tasks being replaced by AI driven automation.
If you have thoughts in this direction, please let me know. We’re doing a working lunch this week to try to put together a session for March.

Links:

I was going to link to the SRC AI Symposium page, but I get an access denied 🙁

Details:

Date – 02/04/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha – Executive Conference Room
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/qbz-ehjb-qij

Supporting - 2026 AI Symposium
2026-01-27 00:00 - 2026-01-29 23:59 | Space & Rocket Center, 1 Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL, 35805, United States
Several folks from Huntsville AI will be giving talks and workshops at the 2026 AI Symposium at the Space & Rocket Center
https://www.rocketcenter.com/2026-AI-Symposium/speakers

AI Literacy & SamGeo
2026-01-21 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
Jacquelyn Neal is facilitating a workshop at Vanderbilt on AI literacy the first weekend of February. She will do a run through of a hands-on activity and get some feedback from the group.
We had a similar conversation about AI Literacy last week with the LearningQuest group. I presented a set of categories and asked for input. I could use the same input from this email distribution if you would like to reply.
AI Literacy Levels:

UNAWARE – people that use AI, but don’t know it. Email spam filters, product recommendations, voice assistants, map navigation, etc.
ADOPTED – people that use available AI tools as part of their daily life or job. Summarizing text, researching questions, planning, etc.
ADVANCED – people that are trying the latest and greatest advancements, possibly in new ways.

For the second half of the meetup, I will cover what I have been working with using satellite imagery, combined with Cropscape data to identify individual agriculture fields.

Links:

SamGeo – https://samgeo.gishub.org/
CropScape Data – https://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/index.jsp?state=AL

Details:

Date – 01/21/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/mof-nhkk-jes

Learning Quest #2 - AI 101
2026-01-21 13:00 - 14:30 | Huntsville Madison County Library, 915 Monroe St, Huntsville, AL, 35801, United States
This second session is supporting LearningQuest to provide an AI-101 class for its members.
lquest.org

Virtual Paper Review - AI Agent Benchmarks
2026-01-14 18:00 - 19:30
For our first paper review of 2026, we will have Tom Plunkett lead us through papers that define benchmarks used to evaluate Agentic AI.
This will be an hour long deep dive into an Agentic AI benchmark, the Tau benchmark. We’ll start with the 2024 Tau Benchmark paper, then cover the 2025 Tau2 benchmark paper. Finally, we’ll take a look at the tau2 bench Github and using the tau2 benchmark with example agents from the Retail, Telecom, and Airline domains .

Links:

τ -bench: A Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction in Real-World Domains: Shunyu Yao, Noah Shinn, Pedram Razavi, Karthik Narasimhan https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12045
τ2-Bench: Evaluating Conversational Agents in a Dual-Control Environment: Victor Barres, Honghua Dong, Soham Ray, Xujie Si, Karthik Narasimhan https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07982

Details:

Date – 01/14/2026
Time – 6-7:30pm
Location – VIRTUAL
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/jfo-rrvd-aqv
Phone: ‪(US) +1 402-864-0236‬ PIN: ‪332 674 634‬#

Learning Quest - AI 101
2026-01-14 13:00 - 14:30 | Huntsville Madison County Library, 915 Monroe St, Huntsville, AL, 35801, United States
This session is supporting LearningQuest to provide an AI-101 class for its members.
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Agent Workshops Preview
2026-01-07 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
We made it to 2026! Believe it or not, this begins the 9th year of Huntsville AI.
Here’s a quick recap of 2025 for Huntsville AI, with a full report linked below:

LinkedIn – Follower count doubled during 2025. Thanks for sharing, commenting, liking our posts and events!
Newsletter – subscribers increased 40% over 2025. Usually see a ~40% to ~50% open rate.
Meetups – 25 meetups with 8 speakers.
Paper Reviews – 11 sessions with in-depth paper reviews
Community Support – 12 sessions supporting various other organizations in the Huntsville area.

This Week:
We will preview some of the material that will be presented for workshops at the Space & Rocket AI Symposium later this month. For those that can’t make it to the symposium, this will be an opportunity to get an advance look, and also help presenters clarify or expand on any unclear information. I believe that 6 speakers are regular attenders of our meetups, with another 3 or 4 also on this mailing list – so we will be well represented at the Symposium.
We’ll start with my workshop – “Workshop: Building Your First AI Agents”. This will be based around the “Agent Playground” repository linked below. It’s a mix of python source code and Jupyter Notebooks intended to be run in Google Colab to provide a hands-on developer experience.
Josh will expand on his presentation with Git Worktrees and Agent Skills : Two topic additions to the content we covered in our Structured Agentic Software Engineering session. We will be covering how to utilize Git Worktrees to effectively partition parallel agent workloads and the new “Skills” open standard introduced by Anthropic for packaging compartmentalized capabilities that go beyond basic prompting.

Links:

2025 Year End Report – https://github.com/HSV-AI/presentations/blob/master/2025/251217-Year-in-Review.md
Agent Playground Repository – https://github.com/HSV-AI/agent-playground
Structured Agentic Software Engineering – Paper Review video – https://hsv.ai/2025/10/08/structured-agentic-software-engineering/
Structured Agentic Software Engineering – Meetup video – https://hsv.ai/2025/11/05/structured-agentic-software-engineering-round-2/

Details:

Date – 01/07/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/dmn-xmrt-bjs

2025 Year in Review
2025-12-17 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
It’s that time again!
We’ll get together this week to do a round-up of the topics that we covered this year and look at what’s coming up for 2026.

Details:

Date – 12/17/2025
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/rny-scve-cic

Virtual Paper Review - AI World Models
2025-12-10 18:00 - 19:30
Join us for our monthly virtual Paper Review as we explore the multifaceted world of World Models (WMs)! This session will utilize a recent survey paper to help explore a spectrum of uses for these models and connect them to some of the other topics we have covered in this series such as reasoning, multimodal embeddings, and diffusion transformers.
We will analyze the current state of world models, who are the big players, what are they doing? And where might they be taking us in 2026?
High Level Topics :

Conceptual Links: Connecting modern WMs to the psychological concept of Mental Models and engineering concepts like Digital Twins.
Representation & Recovery: Discussing Implicit Representation and World Model Recovery.
Future Predictions: An overview of prediction methodologies.
Decision-Making: Advances in Model-based Reinforcement Learning (state transition dynamics) and the integration of LLMs/MLLMs for planning and action generation.
World Knowledge: Categorizing the knowledge implicitly held within WMs: Global Physical World, Local Physical World (cognitive maps), and Human Society (Theory of Mind).
Generative Progress: The evolution from video generation (Sora) to fully Embodied Environments (Genie3 / Marble).
Critical Applications: Reviewing the requirements for WMs in areas such as Game, Embodied, Urban, and Societal Intelligence.
Open Research Lanes: Identifying key unsolved research challenges.

Links:

V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planning – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.09985
LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08544v3

Details:

Date – 12/10/2025
Time – 6-7:30pm
Location – VIRTUAL
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/bry-ruop-vpq
Dial in:‪ (US) +1 650-667-3474‬ PIN: ‪989 475 586‬#

AI in Astrophotography
2025-12-03 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
This week we have another guest speaker – Lorin Bales! She will be presenting “Astrophotography: Bringing nebula to light with AI” where we will learn about both astrophotography as well as how AI is used in the creation and processing of these images.
Links:

Atmospheric – https://astrospheric.com/
AstroBackyard – https://astrobackyard.com/

Details:

Date – 12/03/2025
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88983675384?pwd=[REDACTED]

AI in Healthcare
2025-11-19 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
This week we have another guest speaker – Jacquelyn Neal! She has helped me a lot this year with background information and insights for the UAH Doctoral Intensive that we supported in September, so it will be great for the group to hear from her directly.
“Let’s talk about AI in Healthcare – the opportunities, the challenges, and the ethics. We’ll look at a broad scope of where AI is being implemented in the healthcare system and biomedical research. We’ll also discuss the many challenges, including data collection, standardization, and privacy at scale.”

Details:

Date – 11/19/2025
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87461791616?pwd=[REDACTED]

Virtual Paper Review
2025-11-12 18:00 - 19:00
Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6 pm to continue our monthly Paper Review series!
This week I’m teaming up with David Showalter to cover three papers in two different domains. The first will be David covering “Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models” to talk about whether or not LLMs can actually detect what they are “thinking”. If you’ve been in some of our sessions before, you may have participated in discussions about LLM output describing what it’s thinking. The question is whether this is based on anything realistic – or just another place where a model was trained to give us output that we find acceptable.
The second set of papers we’ll cover are focused on the occupational and economic impact of AI. I have been getting more and more questions about whether “AI is going to take our jobs”. Instead of answering the question directly, we’ll look at the best studies we can find that provide real data about what types of tasks can be automated by AI and what jobs may be at risk.
NOTE – The previous paper review using Google Meet went really well, so we’re going to continue that approach. I’ll be monitoring this email as we get started up, so please let me know if you have issues joining. You do not need a Google account to join, but I’m sure it will ask to use one if you have it.

Links:

Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models – https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/introspection/index.html
Measuring the performance of our models on real-world tasks – https://openai.com/index/gdpval/
Anthropic Economic Index, Understanding AI’s effects on the economy – https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index

Details:

Date – 11/12/2025
Time – 6-7:30pm
Location – VIRTUAL
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/pqo-obmo-rkh
Dial in:‪(US) +1 573-343-8318‬ PIN: ‪687 416 010‬#

SW Engineering with AI Agents
2025-11-05 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
Join us as Josh Phillips leads the discussion and demonstration of SW Engineering with AI Agents. Prompting LLMs is one thing. Building reliable AI-assisted engineering workflows is another. This session covers a practical demonstration of several recent papers we’ve covered in our virtual paper review series to demonstrate a complete agentic engineering workbench.
Live demonstration featuring:

Arize Phoenix for observability,
Pydantic-AI for agent framework,
Playwright MCP for tool integration,
Claude Code and Codex for IDE integration,
A2A agent implementation

Interactive session with Q&A throughout. We’ll discuss implementation decisions and explore how these systems integrate in practice. GitHub repository with quickstart instructions provided – clone and adapt it to build your own workbench.

Details:

Date – 11/05/2025
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88200172772?pwd=[REDACTED]

Congressional Office of International Leadership
2025-11-04 09:00 - 12:00
AI Discussion supporting the Congressional Office of International Leadership. There is a group of 6 from Latvia here as part of this program. The normal agenda has been greatly affected by the government shutdown (no NASA, etc), so they asked if I can talk about AI. The plan is to talk about AI, innovation, community, entrepreneurship, etc.

Fall Social
2025-10-15 17:30 - 20:00 | Stovehouse, 3414 Governors Dr SW, Huntsville, AL, 35805
It’s time (and finally cool enough) for our Fall Social! Come join us at Stovehouse after work on Wednesday and get to know the group. This is always a great way to get introduced to others in the group. I’ll try go grab a few tables by Pourhouse – probably as close to 5pm as I can leave work 🙂
Also – for those of you affected by the shutdown – We hope you’re doing well. If you are looking for some resources to pick up some new skills or techniques, let me know. Here’s a quick post from Anthropic on Context Engineering:
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents
There’s also a free virtual event all day tomorrow – International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science – that has a very wide selection of topics. It’s also a global conference covering a full 24 hour period. https://www.idwsds.org/

Details:

Date – 10/15/2025
Time – 5:30 – 8:00 pm
Location – Stovehouse
Address – 3414 Governors Dr SW, Huntsville 35805

Virtual Paper Review - Structured Agentic Software Engineering
2025-10-08 18:00 - 19:30
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 3.0: from code suggestions to goal-driven engineering
Two workbenches explained: ACE (people) and AEE (agents)
Core scripts summarized: BriefingScript, LoopScript, MentorScript
What “merge-readiness” means as evidence, not opinion

Part II – Deep Dive

End-to-end flow: ticket → scripts → agent runs → evidence → decision
Consultation Request Packs (when agents ask for human guidance)
Merge-Readiness Packs (what evidence reviewers actually need)
Open research lanes: briefing quality, loop design, tooling, governance, teaming

NOTE – We are moving from Zoom to Google Meet this week for a trial run. I’ll be monitoring this email as we get started up, so please let me know if you have issues joining. You do not need a Google account to join, but I’m sure it will ask to use one if you have it.
Links:

Main Paper: Agentic Software Engineering: Foundational Pillars and a Research Roadmap — https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06216

Details:

Date – 10/08/2025
Time – 6-7:30pm
Location – VIRTUAL
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/tuq-utxh-riq
Dial in:‪(US) +1 260-344-4610‬ PIN: ‪207 448 030‬#

AI Workloads with Runpod
2025-10-01 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
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 will cover the types of serverless hosting (along with cost) provided by Runpod and discuss both the asynchronous and streaming versions of hosting.
Depending on who is available at the session (I’m no expert!) – we will also talk about securing workloads that are running on non-traditional hosts.
So far, the transition from AWS Fargate / Lambda has been super easy since I was using Docker images for both and the signature of the handling function is similar.
Feedback Request:
Also – I could use your feedback on how to best communicate sessions that are open to the community versus sessions that we do in support of other organizations. Those are often open if people want to attend but not always. The best idea I have so far is to put “Supporting – ” before the event name. Scroll down to the Upcoming Schedule to see what this looks like.

Links & Other Resources:

Serverless Documentation – https://docs.runpod.io/serverless/overview

Details:

Date – 10/01/2025
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86596678663?pwd=[REDACTED]

Lightning Talks
2025-09-17 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
We’ll have several of our folks give short talks about what they are working on or learning.

Virtual Paper Review: Occupational Implications of Generative AI
2025-09-10 18:00 - 19:30
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 2024.
The basic premise of the paper is to evaluate how much Generative AI use overlaps with different occupations.
More specifically, we will look at:

Dual Role Analysis: User Goals vs. AI Actions
The paper distinguishes between the tasks users want AI to help with and what the AI actually does, enabling a nuanced view of augmentation versus automation.
AI Applicability Score Framework
By integrating coverage, success, and scope metrics into an applicability score, the study provides a quantitative, occupation-level measure of AI relevance that aligns well with theoretical models.
Socioeconomic Insights & Cautions on Impact Interpretation
The correlation with predicted models, modest wage/education effects, and the historical perspective on economic consequences underscore both the promise and the uncertainty of AI’s real-world occupational effects.

Links:

Paper – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935

Details:

Date – 9/10/2025
Time – 6-7:30pm
Location – VIRTUAL
Zoom –https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81918891827?pwd=[REDACTED]

Midjourney - Beginner to Expert
2025-09-03 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
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 a live demo covering the journey from getting started as a beginner to expert level tips for image and video creation:

Signup and Costs
General prompt structure
Overview of settings and commands
Personalization and mood boards
Editing and Retexturing
Video
Auto-prompt generation using other AI

Links & Other Resources:

Midjourney – https://www.midjourney.com/home
Documentation and Guides – https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/categories/32013335627533-Documentation
Midjourney TV – https://www.midjourney.tv/
v7 SREF Catalog – https://www.playbook.com/s/cqdesigns/new-v7-sref-mining

Details:

Date – 9/03/2025
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88395736080?pwd=[REDACTED]

Group Project Roundup
2025-08-20 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
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 we can get a few people to present some ideas for those as well. We can also take a look to see if there are any running competitions that we might be interested in.
With the time left, we’ll cover my recent experience with moving the transcription service from AWS Fargate, over to AWS Lambda, and then to Runpod.io. Also – as you can tell from the session schedule toward the bottom of the email, we need to come up with some additional topics to cover.

Links & Other Resources:

Bug Analysis project (a.k.a NLP before LLMs) – https://github.com/HSV-AI/bug-analysis
Product Recommendation – https://github.com/HSV-AI/product-recommendation
Hackathon Starter Kit – https://github.com/HSV-AI/hackathon-starterkit

Details:

Date – 8/20/2025
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89675917660?pwd=[REDACTED]

Virtual Paper Review - Agentic Memory for Autonomous Debugging
2025-08-13 18:00 - 19:30
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 will cover foundations for understanding the paper content and in the second we will cover the paper content in detail.
Foundations

Why long-horizon bug fixes outgrow any context window
How agent trajectories can be converted into memories
Storage choices for experience banks: vector DBs, pruning, and versioning

Paper walkthrough & live prototype

Instructor–Assistant roles and where memory is injected during MCTS search
Live demo: spin up a minimal SWE-Exp prototype, index two sample fixes, and watch the agent retrieve and apply them in real time
Open questions: memory freshness, cross-repo generalization, and maintenance workflows

Links:

Paper – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23361

Details:

Date – 8/13/2025
Time – 6-7:30pm
Location – VIRTUAL
Zoom –https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88233490506?pwd=[REDACTED]

SMD Field Trip
2025-08-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Von Braun Center, 700 Monroe St SW, Huntsville, AL, 35801, 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 their booths and ask them to talk to us about their offerings

Also new this year – based on the SMD Symposium website, the free admission to the exhibit space also includes the technical papers. These are worth your time if you can manage to take a few days off of work, or are already at the conference. Some of the presenters are part of our Huntsville AI community, so please show your support! You’ll find a link to the agenda below.

Links & Other Resources:

SMD Symposium Registration – https://smd.ud.net/register
Tech Track Agenda – https://smdsymposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-Tech-Track-Agenda-v02.pdf
Venue & Parking – https://smdsymposium.org/venue/

Details:

Date – 8/06/2025
Time – 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Location – Von Braun Center South Hall
Address – Monroe Street, Huntsville, AL 35801

Replit AI Agent
2025-07-23 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
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 build a complete application from scratch—all driven by simple prompts. You’ll learn how to leverage the Agent for rapid prototyping to get immediate feedback on your ideas. We will cover practical strategies for integrating this tool into your workflow, whether you’re a seasoned developer looking to accelerate your process or a complete beginner eager to bring your creations to life.”

Links & Other Resources:

Replit AI – https://replit.com/ai

Details:

Date – 7/23/2025
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Zoom – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87872699213?pwd=[REDACTED]
