Re: Enterprise Neurosystem Activity Report 6/22 (United Nations & State Department)
by Lisa Caywood
regular reminder that community communications need to be documented in
public-accessible forums, such as the community mailer.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 8:38 AM Bill Wright <bwright(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> And as mentioned, here's the VentureBeat Transform conference session. If
> you skip to 20:00, the Enterprise Neurosystem is discussed.
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> https://venturebeat.com/2022/07/21/intel-wayfair-red-hat-and-aible-on-get...
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> Bill
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> On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 1:05 AM Bill Wright <bwright(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here's the latest update on Enterprise Neurosystem activity:
>>
>> *United Nations*
>>
>> We had a recent call with the leadership of the United Nations Technology
>> Executive Committee for the UNFCCC (Paris Agreement). We are now
>> building deeper engagement and collaboration, and have been invited to
>> submit proposals for Enterprise Neurosystem AI presentations at UN events
>> in 2022 and 2023.
>>
>> *US State Department*
>>
>> We have been in contact with the US State Department representative to
>> the UNFCCC TEC. He requested a community summary and proposal for
>> climate engagement areas in various national and international
>> organizations. Ryan Coffee/Stanford SLAC is our Government representative
>> on the board, and crafted the bulk of the proposal (enclosed).
>>
>> *Satellite Data*
>>
>> Tomás Acuña, Yara Mohajerani and Tharshi Srikannathasan have been in
>> conversations with Josh Purcell and the SD Catalog/Central Intelligence
>> group regarding integration of existing and proposed satellite data
>> production models (see update in CI section below). John Overton
>> recently contributed a concept for a new data architecture for planetary
>> mapping.
>>
>> *Acoustics AI / Bee Population PoC*
>>
>> The first demonstration of the sensor is complete with initial data
>> captured, and preliminary analysis is underway - Leo Hoarty's sensor array
>> design is now a reality, and Ryan Coffee's honeybee hive in Portola
>> Valley and a counter-example industrial computing cluster at SLAC served as
>> the initial test locations. Leo will provide a design draft of the modular
>> sensor array so the sensor can be easily replicated at low cost with
>> varying degrees of component sophistication, such that this solution
>> inspires broad adoption and community co-development, with a focus on
>> underserved communities and developing nations. Dr. Noah Wilson-Rich at
>> Best Bees has offered an urban hive to the community for comparative
>> analysis, and Coffee is working with collaborators to include international
>> participation in Mexico City and Barcelona to provide examples of
>> comparative counterpoints as well as iterating the partner codesign
>> principle. Coffee has also begun discussions of leveraging private sector
>> support for computer science in minority-serving institutions
>> that in fact improve the comparative results across US urban environments
>> and Native American tribal agriculture environments. Pictures and a video
>> of the sensor and hive are enclosed.
>>
>> *AI For Science Working Group*
>>
>> In addition to supporting the bee project, Ryan Coffee has deployed the
>> AI Acoustic sensor in his data center at Stanford, capturing IT hardware
>> sound signatures and anomaly detection related to a new research thread in
>> hardware failure forecasting. Such failure forecasting is very closely
>> related to a DOE-funded effort in Tokamak fusion instability forecasting.
>> As a demonstration of the power of cross-domain federation of machine
>> learning, Coffee has proposed a comparative study across this industrial
>> acoustic data to honeybee acoustic communication, the plasma fluctuations
>> in the DIII-D Tokamak reactor, and classical music in the highest frequency
>> ranges. The common patterns across these seemingly disparate areas are
>> hypothesized to aid the generalization of collectively trained foundation
>> models, as well as exposing and exercising the privacy and security
>> concerns in so-called Federated Machine Learning.
>>
>> *Central Intelligence Working Group*
>>
>> Last week, David Wood gave an overview of the Java CLI, and we discussed
>> the possibility of including the catalog's publish feature in that project.
>> The CLI has many features that rely on Java, but one interesting feature
>> was made available via a REST service (recording of this meeting is
>> available in our slack channel). Josh Purcell also asked whether the models
>> generated by this tool would be compatible with ONNX, as this is one tool
>> that may facilitate making models more discoverable, and David indicated
>> they are not. This is good feedback, as it helps us understand the
>> limitations and utility of different approaches.
>>
>> In addition, Surajit and Anindita downloaded the CLI project, and now
>> have their dev environments working to enable code modification. Surajit
>> also put together a new golang-based project, pulling in third-party
>> projects that make creating CLIs much easier, and shared details on this
>> build. There has been no objection to the idea of going with a new CLI over
>> using the previous Java-based CLI. With that in mind, Josh and Surajit's
>> preference would be to use the golang project going forward. Josh believes
>> this will be more familiar for the group (being golang), and uses standard
>> tools for creating CLIs that will provide community support and a vast
>> array of examples.
>>
>> We also had a meeting with the Satellite working group to discuss details
>> on their data and model assets. We also had a broader discussion to ensure
>> the catalog would make these types of assets discoverable. The main
>> takeaways from this meeting - they validated the benefits of the sd-catalog
>> for their satellite projects, and also mentioned that they had other asset
>> types (aside from data and models) that they would consider for use in the
>> catalog. This was similar to David's comments, as he had other audio assets
>> that were critical to his projects. As workstream lead, Josh believes that
>> focusing on a limited amount of assets while keeping an eye towards
>> supporting a more generic "asset" is a good approach, so we limit the
>> initial scope while working towards a production release.
>>
>> *Secure AI Connectivity Fabric Workstream*
>>
>> Sanjay Aiyagari participated in the recent UOR presentation (see below)
>> and is now looking into incorporating UOR in the PoC with the Secure AI
>> Connectivity Fabric at Stanford SLAC.
>>
>> *Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences & Engineering Conference*
>>
>> The community paper submitted by Dinesh Verma/IBM Research to the SMC2022
>> on Self-Describing Digital Assets was accepted, and the conference will
>> take place in Kingsport TN on August 23-25. Accepted papers include a
>> presentation at the conference, and publication in the conference
>> proceedings in the Springer-Verlag Communications in Computer and
>> Information Science (CCIS) series.
>>
>> *Telco Vertical Development Track*
>>
>> Ravi Sinha/Reliance Jio has been working to recruit new members to our
>> Telco group, and to build a relationship between the Enterprise Neurosystem
>> and the O-RAN nGRG (Next Generation Research Group). Members in the nGRG
>> include Reliance Jio, Intel, NVIDIA, AT&T, Ericsson, Samsung, CTC, CMCC,
>> Qualcomm, Rakuten and others.
>>
>> *Universal Object Reference (UOR)*
>>
>> We recently had a fascinating presentation from Alex Flom at Red Hat, who
>> was introduced to us by Audrey Reznik. This is based on his concept of
>> Universal Object Reference, a new method of identifying anything within the
>> known universe through bare particulars, attributes (including space and
>> time) and multiple dimensions. We will plan a wider community
>> presentation in a few weeks.
>>
>> *VentureBeat Transform 2022*
>>
>> I was invited by Steve Huels to participate in a panel discussion at the
>> VentureBeat Transform event. The panel was moderated by Matt Marshall, CEO
>> of VentureBeat, and included Fiona Tan, CTO of Wayfair, Arun Subramaniyan,
>> VP Cloud and AI at Intel, and Arijit Sengupta, CEO of Aible. I was asked by
>> Matt to describe the Enterprise Neurosystem during the session, and as a
>> result, we recruited a few new community members. I will provide a link
>> when it becomes available.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> --
>> Bill Wright
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