About me
Senior Technical Staff Member,
Lead Architect, Event Processing Technologies
Research lab: Haifa Research Lab
Motto in life: “Ridendo Dicere Verum” (in Latin: to say the truth through humor)
Opher Etzion is Lead Architect of Event Processing Technologies, as part of the ESB Technical Strategy team in IBM Software Group. He is active in technical strategy for software support for event-driven applications cross IBM activities. Previously he has been a Senior Manager in IBM Research division, managed a department that focused around foundation and applications to complex event processing. He is also chairing the emerging techincal society event processing, including the series of Event Processing symposiums, and other activities.
In parallel is also an adjunct faculty member at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Opher has authored or co-authored around 60 papers in refereed journals and conferences, on topics related to: active databases, temporal databases, rule-base systems, complex event processing and autonomic computing.
Prior to joining IBM in 1997, Opher has been a faculty member at the Technion, where he has served as the founding head of the information systems engineering area and graduate program.
Prior to his academic work, he held professional and managerial positions in industry and in the Israel Air-Force, receiving the air-force highest award in 1982, on pioneering work in applying rule-based system in the air-force. Later, he was a manager in Sapiens, which developed and applied data-driven rules.
He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Infonomics, was a guest editor in the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems in 1994, and a guest editor in the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (2001). He served as General Chair and Program Chair of various conferences, and in many program committees, as well as in various national committees in Israel. He has co-authored the book “Temporal Databases – Theory and Practice” Springer-Verlag 1998.
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Last updated 21 Aug 2006