Opher Etzion

Opher Etzion
Born (1957-06-28) 28 June 1957
Haifa, Israel
Nationality Israeli
Occupation Author, Computer scientist
Known for Founder of Event Processing Technical Society

Opher Etzion is an Israeli author and computer scientist. He has been instrumental in the development of the complex event processing area of computer science.[1]

Professional background

Etzion is the Chief Scientist of Event Processing at the IBM Haifa Research Lab.[1] Previously, he was Lead Architect of Event Processing Technology at IBM Websphere and a Senior Manager at the IBM Research Division, managing a department that has pioneered projects shaping the field of event processing. He is also the founding chair of the Event Processing Technical Society.[2]

Etzion serves as Professor and Academic Adviser to the MIS department of the Yezreel Valley College and Adjunct Professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Etzion has supervised several doctoral dissertations and masters theses.

He has authored or co-authored papers in technical journals and conferences on topics related to active databases, temporal databases, Rule-based systems, event processing and Autonomic computing. He has given several keynote address and tutorials and has been named an ACM Distinguished Speaker.[3]

With Peter Niblett Etzion he was the co-author of Event Processing in Action,[4] a comprehensive technical book about event processing. He also co-edited the book Temporal Database - Research and Practice.[5]

Prior to joining IBM in 1997, he was a faculty member and Founding Head of the Information Systems Engineering Department at Technion and held professional and managerial positions at Sapiens International Corporation and in the Israel Air Force.

Honors and awards

Published works

References

  1. 1 2 "OPHER ETZION, IBM Researcher". IBM Research. Retrieved October 12, 2013.
  2. "Opher Etzion - Steering Committee Chair". EPTS. Retrieved October 12, 2013.
  3. "ACM Distinguished Speakers". AC. 2011.
  4. Etzion, Opher; Peter Nibblet (August 2010). Event Processing in Action. Manning. p. 384. ISBN 9781935182214.
  5. Etzion, Opher (1998). Temporal Databases: Research and Practice. Springer. p. 429. ISBN 978-3-540-69799-2.
  6. "IBM Corporate and Patent Portfolio Awards (2010)". IBM.
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