Huntsville AI

Virtual Paper Review - AI Agents, Graphs, and Tabletop Worlds
2026-06-17 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/yie-fbgk-juj

What would it take for an AI to be a useful assistant for a large tabletop campaign simulation? Not just a chatbot that vaguely remembers lore, but a system that knows which NPCs know which secrets, which factions are connected, which rumors came from which source pages, and which claims can actually be checked. That is our entry point for this month’s Virtual Paper Review. We will use a live tabletop campaign-world demo to introduce graph databases, ontologies, and evidence graphs, then connect those ideas to three recent papers on graph-backed AI agents.
Part I – Primer & Foundations

What graph databases are and why connected data matters
What an ontology is and why it is more than a schema diagram
How graph retrieval differs from normal RAG over text chunks
How evidence paths let an agent show its work instead of just citing something

Part II – Papers & Demo

SCOUT-RAG: agents walking graph neighborhoods for retrieval
Why Neighborhoods Matter: the difference between what an agent visited and what it cited
SHARP: checking graph claims against schema and source-grounded evidence
Live demo: Tabletop World Simulation

Links:

SCOUT-RAG: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08400
Why Neighborhoods Matter: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.15109
SHARP: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.04190

Democratizing Health Data: Digital Signal Processing of PPG Signal
2026-06-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Deloitte, 3414 Governors Dr SW STE 220, Huntsville, AL, 35805
This week we will be in-person at Deloitte with Lorin Bales presenting.
This will be a deep dive into the engineering and life-saving potential of open-source Photoplethysmography (PPG) technology. This presentation explores how custom edge devices and applied machine learning can decode cardiovascular signals to prevent driver impairment, track pilot perfusion, and ultimately democratize health data for patients.
Related Links:

Kaggle Dataset: PPG Heart Beat for Cognitive Fatigue Prediction – https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/canaria/5-gamers
Pulse Sensor Official Site – Microcontroller Edge Device – https://pulsesensor.com
Adafruit QT Py ESP32 Pico – https://www.adafruit.com/product/5395

The best way to park and get to the Deloitte office is via the large parking lot on the west side of the building (across from Food City). You can enter the building from that side and head upstairs to the 2nd floor. The address is below in the details list.

Details:

Date – 06/24/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – Deloitte, Singing River Conference Room
Address – 3414 Governors Dr SW STE 220, Huntsville, AL 35805
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/rhp-nsmq-ckc

Unboxing a Robotic Ag Navigation Dataset
2026-07-01 18:00 - 19:30 | CohesionForce, 101 Quality Circle, Suite 140, Huntsville, AL, 35806, United States
July arrived earlier than expected! We’ll be over at CohesionForce this week to cover a dataset that is a great resource for training a visual navigation system. We may also have some time to cover the associated paper, which has references to previous work that is also a good trail to follow.
The paper is:
Cuaran, J., Baquero Velasquez, A. E., Valverde Gasparino, M., Uppalapati, N. K., Sivakumar, A. N., Wasserman, J., … & Chowdhary, G. (2023). Under-canopy dataset for advancing simultaneous localization and mapping in agricultural robotics. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 02783649231215372.
This dataset includes a lot of measurements from a TerraSentia robot as it was being manually driven. It also uses a lot of formats and other 3rd party libraries that I am not familiar with, but might be for those involved in the Robotic Operating System (ROS) community.
So if you know anything about the ZED SDK or Rosbag files, stop by and help us out!
Related Links:

TerraSentia Dataset Github – https://github.com/jrcuaranv/terrasentia-dataset
Link to the paper – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375565255_Under-canopy_dataset_for_advancing_simultaneous_localization_and_mapping_in_agricultural_robotics

We will use the back door with direct access to the conference room, so please park around back.
Details:

Date – 07/01/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – CohesionForce main conference room
Address – 101 Quality Circle, Suite 140, Huntsville, AL 35806
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/xzc-vuef-esx

Virtual Paper Review - Visual Navigation Models
2026-07-08 18:00 - 19:30
This week we will meet VIRTUALLY to walk through the paper associated with the dataset that we unboxed last week. We’ll go through the results they found, and then we will check out a few of the models and their architecture.
The paper is:
Cuaran, J., Baquero Velasquez, A. E., Valverde Gasparino, M., Uppalapati, N. K., Sivakumar, A. N., Wasserman, J., … & Chowdhary, G. (2023). Under-canopy dataset for advancing simultaneous localization and mapping in agricultural robotics. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 02783649231215372.
We’ll take a look at the models in use when the dataset was created (2021) and then cover the newer models that have successfully decreased accuracy measurements and compute requirements.
Related Links:

Link to the paper – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375565255_Under-canopy_dataset_for_advancing_simultaneous_localization_and_mapping_in_agricultural_robotics
ORB-SLAM3: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual-Inertial and Multi-Map SLAM – https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11898
VINS-Fusion: A General Optimization-based Framework for Local Odometry Estimation with Multiple Sensors – https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03638
RTAB-Map: RTAB‐Map as an open‐source lidar and visual simultaneous localization and mapping library for large‐scale and long‐term online operation – https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06341

Details:

Date – 07/08/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/qxs-bmkq-yej

GenAI as Facade of Cognitive Extension
2026-07-22 18:00 - 19:30 | Deloitte, 3414 Governors Dr SW STE 220, Huntsville, AL, 35805
Next week we have the privilege of having Wes Winkler discuss his recent work on the intersection of Generative AI and Cognition.
From Wes:
We’ll cover:

How the use of language is a symbolic abstraction layer that sits between the environment and environmentally situated signals, boundaries, and skill based affordances.

How common AI implementation patterns reduce or eliminate systemic, sensory and signal feedback loops which undercuts the ability of individuals and organizations to develop and maintain affordance-based skills.

Implementation patterns that enable better sensory integration, cross-domain knowledge transfer, and skill maintenance when designing AI solutions.

Related Links:

Link to the paper – https://metanoiasystems.org/papers/genai-as-facade-of-cognitive-extension

The best way to park and get to the Deloitte office is via the large parking lot on the west side of the building (across from Food City). You can enter the building from that side and head upstairs to the 2nd floor. The address is below in the details list.

Details:

Date – 07/22/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – Deloitte, Singing River Conference Room
Address – 3414 Governors Dr SW STE 220, Huntsville, AL 35805
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/jsi-iozk-igs

Social at Yellohammer
2026-07-29 17:30 - 19:30 | Yellowhammer Brewing, 2600 Clinton Ave W, Huntsville, AL, 35805, United States
We’re getting together at Yellowhammer to connect and conversate about AI things.

OpenAI vs Hugging Face Play-by-Play
2026-08-05 18:00 - 19:30 | CohesionForce, 101 Quality Circle, Suite 140, Huntsville, AL, 35806, United States
This week we have Lorin Bales presenting a play-by-play of what occurred between OpenAI and Hugging Face last week.
In July 2026, an OpenAI model sat down to take a cybersecurity exam — and cheated.
Running with their safety controls deliberately switched off, the models were being tested on ExploitGym, a public benchmark measuring whether AI can turn software flaws into working attacks. Instead of solving it, they escaped the sealed test environment through its one permitted connection. The model spent four and a half days and roughly 17,600 actions breaking into Hugging Face’s production systems to steal it.
We’ll walk the timeline events, separate what’s confirmed from what’s still undisclosed, and look over how Hugging Face investigated with an open-weight model to complete the forensics.
Links:

“ExploitGym: Can AI Agents Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks?” https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11086

Details:

Date – 08/05/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – CohesionForce, Inc
Address – 101 Quality Cir NW #140, Huntsville, AL 35806
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/emx-vbbb-fen

SMD Symposium Walk Through
2026-08-12 14:00 - 17:00 | Von Braun Center, 700 Monroe St SW, Huntsville, AL, 35801, United States

Building Artemis (our AI-powered Discord chatbot): Choosing an Agent Harness
2026-08-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Deloitte, 3414 Governors Dr SW STE 220, Huntsville, AL, 35805
Join us this week at Deloitte as Matt Brooks leads a hands-on session focused on building Artemis, our AI-powered Discord chatbot.
We’ll begin with an overview of the frameworks and agent harnesses that could power Artemis, including the Pi SDK, Codex SDK, OpenCode SDK, and Deep Agents SDK. We’ll look at the current state of the ecosystem and discuss what a harness provides and why we might want to use one.
From there, we’ll review the requirements for Artemis, make some key implementation decisions, and start building it together
Links:

Pi SDK – https://pi.dev/docs/latest/sdk
Codex SDK – https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/codex-sdk
OpenCode SDK – https://opencode.ai/docs/sdk/
Deep Agents SDK – https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/deepagents/overview

The best way to park and get to the Deloitte office is via the large parking lot on the west side of the building (across from Food City). You can enter the building from that side and head upstairs to the 2nd floor. The address is below in the details list.

Details:

Date – 08/19/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – Deloitte, Singing River Conference Room
Address – 3414 Governors Dr SW STE 220, Huntsville, AL 35805
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/shs-xmjd-acz
