Re: Enterprise Neurosystem - Federated Learning Working Group
by Lisa Caywood
community(a)lists.enterpriseneurosystem.org is the perfect email to use
whenever reaching out to the community at large. =)
On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 9:54 AM Audrey Reznik <areznik(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> I'd be interested in attending and helping :)
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 9:42 AM Heiko Ludwig <hludwig(a)us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since the Board has approved a working group on Federated Learning we
>> thought it would be good to get started. We propose an initial call to
>> define goal, how we want to go about them, and how we want to work
>> together. Since we didn’t really figure out which mailing list to use
>> (thanks Dinesh to pointing me to where they are :-) we're just writing to
>> the invitees to the bi-weekly call.
>>
>> We would propose a first call next week Friday, 9/23, at 9AM Pacific
>> Time. This seems to be a time that works for many. We’re open to other
>> suggestions as well.
>>
>> Would you please reply to this email if you’re interested in
>> participating.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Heiko and Nathalie
>>
>>
>>
>> —
>> Dr. Heiko Ludwig,
>> Principal RSM, Senior Mgr AI Platforms
>> IBM Research, Almaden, San Jose, CA
>> hludwig(a)us.ibm.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: Bee Questionnaire for Ryan and Research Paper on indigenous and academic knowledge on bees in the Amazon
by Lisa Caywood
as always, please send all community-wide communications to the community
mailer for transparency and archiving purposes. Each workgroup should also
have its own mailer, for those who only want to get a subset of
communications.
Thanks, Lisa
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 2:10 PM den <denniscoconnell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ryan and Team,
>
> As a follow up to our bee meeting today here is the Gdoc link to edit
> for questions to indigenous beekeeping groups.
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xS0Jz54dB4K3xs5pRAi4YuNywB247xg415oP5...
>
> I have a contact that works with a large portion of native american
> tribes in the midwest and I will ask him to pass along the
> questionnaire once completed.
>
> Also attached in a research paper about brazilian indigenous
> beekeeping practices and history and how the introduction of the
> africanized bees affected them. It is more about the cultural than
> scientific but I enjoyed it.
>
> Here are some of the highlights.
>
> Apis mellifera in Brazil occurred around 1839 by the
> Portuguese, mainly by the Jesuits priests, primarily for
> wax extraction for candle production used for religious
> purposes [22]. In 1845, German colonizers brought over
> more bees, beginning apiculture in the south of Brazil
> [22]. Following these events, other colonizers also
> brought European bees to different Brazilian regions,
> some of them unregistered. Until the middle of 20 th
> Century, the European A. mellifera did not disperse be-
> yond the locations where it was introduced.
> The Brazilian government asked Dr. Warwick Kerr, a
> biologist and geneticist, to “create” a bee that could pro-
> duce more honey in tropical environments. In 1956, Dr.
> Warwick Kerr led an expedition to South Africa and
> Zimbabwe and brought 36 African queens to an agricul-
> tural research station in the State of São Paulo. By inter-
> breeding the queens through artificial insemination with
> European drones, Kerr and his associates produced a
> number of first generation hybrids. After several months,
> their stock of Africanized honey bees was reduced to 29
> and they were maintained in hive boxes equipped with
> queen excluders. In October of 1957, a local beekeeper
> noticed the queen excluders and removed them, acci-
> dentally releasing 26 Africanized honey bee queens with
> small swarms to the forest nearby [22, 23]. There was no
> way to find these “lost queens” again. This incident
> changed the history of bees and beekeepers foreve
>
> In 2001, Xingu honey trademarked as “Mel dos Índios
> do Xingu” (Xingu Indigenous Honey) was certified as an
> organic product by the Instituto Biodinâmico (IBD), be-
> coming the first indigenous product to be labelled as or-
> ganic in Brazil, and receiving the seal from the Brazilian
> Ministry of Agriculture (SIF). In 2015, apiculture was
> the most successful market activity developed in Xingu
> Park, involving around 24 villages and 5 indigenous
> groups. In 2011, around 900 kg of Xingu indigenous
> honey was sold to Pão de Açúcar, a well-known Brazilian
> supermarket chain [50].
>
> The Xingu Indigenous Park was created in 1961 by the
> Brazilian government. It has an area of 2,642,003 ha
> within the Xingu River watershed, in a transitional zone
> between the savannas and the Amazonian tropical forest
> (Fig. 1). Fourteen indigenous groups live within the
> Park’s limits, totaling 4,829 people in 2011 [48]. The
> vegetation of Xingu Park is composed of a mosaic of
> various ecozones such as savannas, flooded forests, non-
> flooded forests, palm groupings and forests on growing
> on “black earth” or anthropogenic soils [49].
> The apiculture activity began in Xingu Park in 1996
> through the Fundação Mata Virgem, incorporated by the
> Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental 1 in 1997 (ISA).
> Initially, few beehive boxes were installed in bigger
> villages. In each village, men interested in working as
> beekeepers began to receive specialized technical training
> through collaboration with practitioners and technicians
> from APACAME,2 an association of beekeepers from São
> Paulo State (Associação Paulista de Apicultores Criadores
> de Abelhas Melíficas Europeias)
>
>
> In Kayapo cosmology,
> an ancient shaman called “wayanga” taught their ances-
> tors how to live, work and defend themselves like social
> insects, gaining his knowledge observing bee, wasp and
> ant behavior [45, 60]. Traditional circular villages are
> said by the Kayapo to take the cross-sectional form of
> conical nests of wasps and bees. Studying Kayapo’s
> knowledge on bees and insects, Darrell Posey [42] ob-
> served that bee specialists among the Kayapo from
> Gorotire were all shamans.
>
> There are many taboos in regards to honey consump-
> tion and honey gathering. The Ikpeng say that some
> bees are very dangerous and that their spirits keep
> strange things such as dead bugs, rat skulls, snake skulls,
> monkey skulls etc. Especially when a couple has a small
> baby or little kids, they can’t consume honey, because it
> can cause sickness and even death to the child.
>
> An important aspect linking the diversity of bees
> with landscape patchiness refers to the role of indi-
> genous societies in creating, enhancing and maintain-
> ing biodiversity at local and landscape scales, through
> biocultural co-evolution. Evidence from previous
> research has shown that indigenous management
> practices linked to rotation of settlements and
> swidden-fallow agriculture have enhanced the patchi-
> ness and diversity of vegetation types, plant species
> and niches for animal species, including bees, in the
> Amazon [67–72]. Indigenous management practices,
> intertwined with their belief systems and worldviews,
> have enhanced the diversity of ecozones and habitats
> for bee species in the Amazon
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
>
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Re: Enterprise Neurosystem - Discussions with Hugging Face Today in Central Intelligence Platform Call.
by Lisa Caywood
Gentle reminder that all such communications should go to the Community
mailer. It is a record for those who may be interested but not currently on
your list, and avoids spamming those who have not opted in to your list.
Cheers, Lisa
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 6:36 AM Dinesh Verma <dverma(a)us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Dear ENG Community Members,
>
> I just wanted to remind everyone that thanks to the help of David
> Edelsohn, the Central Intelligence Platform team is holding a meeting with
> Hugging Face today at 12 noon Eastern/9AM Pacific. In this meeting, the
> Hugging Face team will present their work on AI model sharing and have a
> set of discussions on synergy with the ENG activities.
>
> If you are interested in the discussions, you are welcome to join the
> Central Intelligence Platform call today. The logistics are:
>
>
>
> Webex: https://ibm.webex.com/meet/dverma
>
> Dial In Information: 1-669-234-1178, Meeting No: 921518655
>
> Time: Sept 12, 2022, 12noon-1PM Eastern/9AM-10AM Pacific.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Dinesh C. Verma, FREng
> IBM Fellow, Chief Scientist, Research Consulting Partnership,
>
> IBM TJ Watson Research Center
> P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598
> Phone: (914)-494-8018
> Email: dverma(a)us.ibm.com
>
> URL: ibm.biz/dineshverma
>
>
>
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