tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78318134228867307372024-03-14T04:24:28.211+02:00Event Processing ThinkingThis is a blog describing some thoughts about issues related to event processing and thoughts related to my current role. It is written by Opher Etzion and reflects the author's own opinionsOpher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.comBlogger870125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-87153234174906338752015-04-28T13:07:00.000+03:002015-04-28T13:07:21.176+03:00On security challenges of the Internet of Things<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;">I was asked by one of the leading security companies to come and talk with its technical leaders about the security challenges of the Internet of Things, which I believe is one of the major challenges in this area. Here are my thoughts on </span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.rtinsights.com/security-challenges-internet-things/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">my weekly column in RTInsights</span></a>.</span><br />
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Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-28193562202139631902015-04-11T22:55:00.002+03:002015-04-11T22:55:36.624+03:00On Processing Future Events <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;">One of the main characteristics of intelligent real-time systems is their ability to process future events. </span><a href="http://www.rtinsights.com/processing-future-events/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Here are some thoughts in my weekly column on RTInsights. </span></a></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-62909334670267822292015-04-02T12:20:00.002+03:002015-04-02T12:20:38.238+03:00On Real Time <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Some thoughts about the term "Real-time"</span><span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://www.rtinsights.com/on-real-time/" target="_blank"> in my weekly column in the Real-time Insights.</a></span><br />
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Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-74500681950877962292015-03-24T10:41:00.001+02:002015-03-24T10:59:22.045+02:00Real time insights, the real-timer and the blog <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;">I have not written in this Blog for a while, but am returning now to Blogging (I have been quite active in micro-blogging on Facebook and Twitter, though)..</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Actually I am now into three types of Blogging.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The first one is this Blog: it will always be my "home" personal Blog, and in which I'll continue to write personal posts, and provide links to the other blog that I am writing about now the "real-timer".</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">A couple of years ago we started an Internet magazine called "RTInsights" and published a couple of issues on pilot basis. Now we are back at</span><a href="http://www.rtinsights.com/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">RTInsights</span><span style="color: blue;">,</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> in a new form as a website described</span><a href="http://www.rtinsights.com/about-us/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">as follows:</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">"RTInsights is an independent expert-driven web resource singularly focused on helping senior business and IT professionals accelerate their business with real-time insights.</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Our technology coverage includes the application of business analytics, big data, Internet of Things, cloud infrastructure, Event processing, intelligent BPM and decision management, and any other critical technologies for operating your business in real-time. Our in-depth specialized content is provided by expert analysts, consultants and enterprise practitioners focused on the real-time enterprise." </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> My role in RTInsights is twofold: I am writing a weekly post under the "Real-timer", which will provide professional opinions on the area of RTInsights. There are couple of posts there, one old and one new. </span><a href="http://www.rtinsights.com/flying-forward-looking-backward-statistical-analysis-of-the-past-is-not-enough-to-navigate-the-future/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: red;">The old one</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> is entitled: "Flying Forward, Looking Backward: Statistical analysis of the past is not enough to navigate the future". The</span><a href="http://www.rtinsights.com/reversing-the-roles/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">new one</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> is entitled: "Reversing the Roles". </span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The</span><a href="http://www.rtinsights.com/our-team/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">other role</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> is "International Technical Editor" in which I'll cover applications, activities, and companies in this area outside the USA, with an emphasis on developing countries. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">If you wonder where is the third activity of Blogging. It is quite different one, a</span><a href="http://claususqueinossibus.blogspot.co.il/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">relatively new Blog</span> </a><span style="color: blue;">in which I post my own attempts at poetry in Hebrew, though the Blog has a Latin name.</span><br />
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Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-91783104288101260872014-12-31T21:51:00.001+02:002014-12-31T21:51:59.300+02:002014 -- A year of change <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;">2014 was for me a year of change, actually many changes... I have written less in this Blog this year, average of one post per week, while in the past I used to post every couple of days.. Made a note to myself to get better at this in 2015... </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The main nominal change was the change. In February</span><span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2014/02/moving-on.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">I wrote a post in this Blog entitled "moving on"</span></a></span><span style="color: blue;"> where I reported on career change, after long period in IBM Research I have taken a position to lead societal-academic initiative </span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2014/11/the-institute-of-technological.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">called "The Institute of Technological Empowerment".</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> This is a different world, different in mentality, different in content, and different in the surrounding environment. The lifestyle is different. I used to go to the office in the morning, spend all day either in my own office or in conference room and get out of work while it is dark outside. Today there are not two similar days: I have a nice office (which looks like a combination of a library and art gallery), but I don't go there every day. I spend a lot of time in meetings outside. I am travelling a lot and driving a lot. Meeting new people of types I never met -- politicians, educators, artists, media people, subject matter experts in various areas such as agriculture, gerontology, traditional industries etc... Gaining a new work partners, some of them are amazing people very different from the people I used to work... </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Working now on things related to education and activities to enrich high-school students in the Israeli periphery, something quite remote from what I've done, and getting to some new ideas in multi-disciplinary research... </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Many starts, and 2015 will be a year to accomplish many of the starts.... very curious to read what I'll write a year from today... </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-59802092102613098792014-12-14T20:30:00.000+02:002014-12-14T20:35:51.687+02:00 CEP Market players - end of 2014 - from Paul Vincent <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;">Paul Vincent</span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.complexevents.com/2014/12/03/cep-tooling-market-survey-2014/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">published the new instance of his series on the genealogy of event processing players</span>,</a> </span><span style="color: blue;">as seen in the picture above. Note that it includes also streaming platforms like STORM which is not an event processing tool per se, but a platform on which event processing functionality can be programmed. Such platforms are indeed the most notable shift from previous versions. </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-4301332170497618152014-11-25T21:28:00.000+02:002014-11-25T21:28:33.723+02:00Starting my own radio show <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;">When asked what do you want to do when you grow up, some people say they want to be pilots, and some say they want to be firefighters. I was a strange kid and said: I want to work in the radio, </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The years passed and I have gone into computer programming and then into other areas around information technology and gave up my childhood dream, but did not forget it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">A few months ago I discovered that there is a regional radio station located in the campus of the college I am working in. I approached the station manager with the idea to have my own radio show in which I am hosting interesting people talking about technology, societal activities, and the bridge between them. She agreed to record a pilot and take it from there. I have recorded three sessions, and then an opening session, interviewing me (in the picture), and then this week the program went live. Until this year I have never participated in a radio program, neither as host nor as a participant. Earlier this year I have been interviewed twice in two different radio stations about the activity of the </span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2014/11/the-institute-of-technological.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Institute of Technological Empowerment</span><span style="color: blue;">,</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> Actually I prefer the role of host, it is a lot of fun!. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Here is a picture in which I am hosting my first interviewer, Rami Gazit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">It is never late to fulfill the childhood dreams....</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">For those who can read Hebrew, all details are in the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/emekdigitaly" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Facebook page of the program</span></a><span style="color: blue;">. </span><br />
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Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-87216623471687350482014-11-11T09:35:00.001+02:002014-11-11T09:35:48.770+02:00More on storytelling <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;">Ramesh Jain has uploaded his presentation</span><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jain49/objective-storytelling-141106" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">on objective storytelling</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> from the ACM multimedia conference last week. Ramesh introduces the notion of personicle as "personal chronicle". This notion stands for a collection of events that describe the story of a single person in a specific time context (day, year etc...). A story is a collection of events that are represented in multimedia fashion, where currently digital pictures are the dominant way of representation. The objective story is the collection of events documenting the story. <br /><br />This is an interesting concept, and I intend to look at the notion of events creating stories also in other areas where events, the interaction between events, and stories interact. For example: creative adaptive stories using event flows. I'll write more about this topic at a later phase. </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-78173479320009338282014-11-08T03:46:00.000+02:002014-11-08T03:46:26.595+02:00On the huevent'14 workshop at ACM Multimedia 2014 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: magenta;">This is me looks small standing near a slide from my presentation at the </span><a href="http://www.huevent14.uni-kiel.de/en/technical-programme" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">huevent'14 workshop</span></a><span style="color: magenta;">. This was kind of a keynote talk so I could talk for an hour (which is better than a typical conference talk of 20 minutes). My talk is similar to some recent talks and </span><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/opher.etzion/on-personalization-of-eventbased-systems" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">can be found on slideshare</span></a><span style="color: magenta;">. </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">One new thing is that I have cited a recent post by Chris Curan entitled: "12 hurdles hampering the Internet of Things". There is also a position paper co-authored with Fabiana Fournier that is </span><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2660514&CFID=596157671&CFTOKEN=60248187" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">available through the ACM digital library</span></a><span style="color: magenta;">. </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">An interesting keynote given by</span><a href="http://ngs.ics.uci.edu/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">Ramesh Jain</span></a><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: magenta;">on storytelling. Ramesh views a story as a flow of events. This is an interesting concept. I guess that the relationship among events is a function of the genre. For documentary story events are coming in a sequence of chronological order, in a detective story, the crime is an event, and later events are relating backwards to previous events in the way to solve the mystery. Other stories have other patterns. This is an interesting topic to investigate further, and I'll continue to do so in the framework of the work on creative skills which is part of the agenda of my institute. More about this - later </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-67396380791755810932014-11-04T21:47:00.003+02:002014-11-04T21:47:46.180+02:00The Institute of Technological Empowerment -- Newsletter in English <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #741b47;">The start of the school year marked also the launch of eight projects within the framework of the </span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2014/03/the-technology-empowerment-institute.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">institute of technological empowerment</span></a><span style="color: #741b47;">. Typically we report on the activities in Hebrew since most of the stakeholders are in Israel, however it is time to issue a newsletter in English for all the international readers who might be interested in this. </span><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/fz980btj7xciums/newsletter%20english%20-%20Nov%202014.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The newsletter</span></a><span style="color: #741b47;"> reflects the current status at the beginning of November 2014. </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-69955859680915916522014-10-21T18:47:00.002+03:002014-10-21T18:47:56.098+03:00Michael Jordan on the delusions of big data <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Michael Jordan</span></a><span style="color: #cc0000;"> (the one from Berkeley, not the basketball player) gave an</span><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/machinelearning-maestro-michael-jordan-on-the-delusions-of-big-data-and-other-huge-engineering-efforts" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">interesting interview</span> </a><span style="color: #cc0000;">to IEEE Spectrum. it is recommended to read his own words. </span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #cc0000;">Using brain metaphors for computing is misleading: computing does not work like the brain, this is also includes one of Jordan's expertise areas - neural nets.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cc0000;">He says that the advances in computer vision lead us to be able to solve some kind of useful problems, but we are very far from giving machine the vision capabilities of a human</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cc0000;">"Big Data" is over-promising. One can prove many false hypotheses using big data methods. This is similar to building bridges without a theory of how to build bridges, some may survive, and some will collapse... </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cc0000;">If he will have $1B to spend on research, he will invest in natural languages processing...</span></li>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">I think that it adds to some other observations about the overhype of "big data" (for example, see my </span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2012/11/more-on-statistical-reasoning-chomsky.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">posting on Noam Chomsky's opinion</span></a><span style="color: #cc0000;"> couple of years ago, or</span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/big-data-are-we-making-big-mistake.html" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">Tim Harford's recent article</span></a><span style="color: #cc0000;">). </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-66898427617793384942014-10-19T19:39:00.000+03:002014-10-19T19:39:42.141+03:00The Physical Web - by Google <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;">Google recently </span><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/02/google-the-physical-web/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">revealed the "Physical Web" project</span></a><span style="color: blue;">. This project is aimed at "interaction on demand" which will be a standard way that everybody will be able to consume data from devices connected to the Internet (AKA "Internet of Things") without the intervention of applications. </span><br /><span style="color: blue;">This idea reminds of the idea of the grand challenge posed by the </span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2011/03/event-processing-manifesto-has-been.html" style="color: red;" target="_blank">Event Processing Manifesto</a><span style="color: blue;"> that was the result of the Dagstuhl seminar in 2010 and talked about "event fabric". The "event fabric" challenge went further than get events on demand and also included processing event patterns on demand which I believe will be the next step to create access for everybody. The ability to compose patterns on demand by everybody is a key to making this real-time data useful and complete the IoT revolution.... I am planned to give a talk related to this idea in early November in a workshop adjacent to the ACM Multimedia conference in Orlando... Will write more on this later...</span></div>
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Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-15312446473069725602014-10-08T22:24:00.000+03:002014-10-08T22:24:39.992+03:00On the history of STORM by Nathan Marz <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Nathan Marz, the guy that is behind the</span><a href="http://storm.incubator.apache.org/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">Storm</span></a><span style="color: #134f5c;"> Apache incubator project.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">Storm has definitely became the most common stream processing platform. This year I am scheduled to teach a course about business intelligence, and my view of business intelligence includes the real-time business intelligence. The students will practice Storm. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Recently</span><a href="http://nathanmarz.com/blog/history-of-apache-storm-and-lessons-learned.html" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">Nathan Marz wrote in his Blog</span></a><span style="color: #134f5c;"> about the history of Storm and lessons learned. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">I think it is worth reading... </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-24530541122938694332014-09-30T16:21:00.001+03:002014-10-01T00:13:48.337+03:00Some insights from the talk of Richard Soley in the IoT summit in INTEROP <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;">The opening speaker in the IoT summit yesterday was </span><a href="http://www.omg.org/~soley/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Richard Soley</span></a><span style="color: blue;">, the person behind Object Management Group. Richard talked about the "industrial Internet". He started his talk by having a nice slide in which the Internet now substitutes many thing we have done in the past</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">However, not everything changed by the Internet, since in many cases enterprises lack the "Internet thinking". Examples are: manufacturing, energy grids, jet engines, oil and gas exploration and more are handled exactly as were done before.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">This is due to the fact that the people involved including technical people are stuck in the way of thinking of the past.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Richard talked about the </span><a href="http://www.iiconsortium.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Industrial Internet Consortium</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> which is a separate entity and not part of OMG (a correction that Richard made to my original posting). </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">It has 85 members (at the time of the talk) and growing. It is intended to study testbeds in this area. The Internet of Things is a crucial component in the industrial internet game.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">One more insight from Richard is that "people don't read". Everybody re-invents the wheel, since the current generation of professional people don't read and are not familiar with the state of the practice. This is consistent with our finding in the event processing area where people prefer to reinvent the wheel and don't even know the wheel exists. Another perspective of Richard's talk you can find in the </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140929135651-23867902-internet-of-things-shows-us-that-the-internet-didn-t-change-everything-yet" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">article by Chris Taylor</span></a><span style="color: blue;">, who was the session organizer. </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-48837394666133920962014-09-29T21:42:00.002+03:002014-09-29T21:42:53.934+03:00My talk in INTEROP 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;">My talk on Internet of Things and Personalization</span><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/opher.etzion/on-internet-of-everything-and-personalization-talk-in-interop-2014" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">is available on Slideshare</span><span style="color: blue;">.</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> This is a shorter variation (with some additions) of my DEBS'14 tutorial. Enjoy!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">I am also planned to deliver a variation of this talk twice more this week: in IBM Research at Yorktown Heights, and in Stony Brooks University. </span><br />
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Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-49765381992189836252014-09-19T22:28:00.001+03:002014-09-19T22:28:55.078+03:00On the Proasense project <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #990000;">I have not written for a while... Busy days. I'll write about my daily work in other opportunity.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Last week I've spent a couple of days in Athens, Greece, as a member of the advisory board of the </span><a href="http://www.proasense.eu/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Proasense project</span><span style="color: #990000;">.</span></a><span style="color: #990000;"> This project deals with proactive computing, which a paradigm that I have been advocating for several years. There are now couple of EU projects I know (the other one is </span><a href="http://speedd-project.eu/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Speedd</span></a><span style="color: #990000;">) in the proactive space. The </span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2009/10/on-proactive-computing.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">proactive</span></a><span style="color: #990000;"> idea is that problems can be eliminated or mitigated before they happen. The Proasense project employs two interesting use cases: one in the manufacturing area, and the other in the oil drilling area, an application that</span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2012/07/debs-2012-our-presentation-on-basic.html" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">we have investigated</span> </a><span style="color: #990000;">a couple of years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">I am still in the opinion that proactive computing will be a major paradigm in the future, and will follow this project during the next couple of years with interest. </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-62323143400334988472014-08-27T19:49:00.004+03:002014-08-27T19:50:35.527+03:00On Fog Computing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #274e13;">While in cloud computing all computation is done in a remote computing center, in fog computing the computation is distributed between local processing ("at the edge of the network") and remote processing. The relationship to the sensor world is straightforward. A site might have multiple sensors. Some of the processing can be processed locally, and some need to be processed in a remote place, furthermore, this may be dynamic and tuned in real-time. The picture above shows the before (cloud model) and after (fog model). The example is energy system. There may be processing done in a processor located in a single house which takes into considerations all sensors installed in the house. There are other types of processing that related to data from multiple houses and need to be processed in a place where all data is available. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Note that nothing is really new (besides the names). Cloud computing is a new name for an old computing model that was once called "service bureau". In the past the "cloud" was a single mainframe, and the edge where collection of dumb terminals. Now the cloud is a grid, and the edge has processing power, but the principle is the same. Fog is also an old principle of distributing the work reminding of N-tier middleware. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I guess that the fog model is indeed more appropriate for IoT scenario than cloud model, in some of the projects that we are now planning within the</span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2014/03/the-technology-empowerment-institute.html" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">Institute of Technological Empowerment</span></a><span style="color: #274e13;">, are indeed fog based. The sensors are going to be communicating with a local processor (which may be as simple as a tablet) with some processing done on the local processor, and some on the cloud. This brings us back to the idea of </span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2012/05/event-processing-and-mobile-devices.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">event processing on mobile</span></a><span style="color: #274e13;">. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">After cloud and fog, we are waiting also for some - wind, rain, and sleet.... </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-81844184654122360092014-08-21T19:20:00.000+03:002014-08-21T19:20:07.244+03:00Gartner hype cycle July 2014 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #783f04;">Gartner published its hype cycle report recently. The "Internet of Things" is now at the top of the hype cycle, defined as "peak of inflated expectation". "Big Data" which has been there before, and now moved down the line of disillusionment. Another hype in the height is the "natural language question answering" that was hyped by IBM's Watson. In the upwords side we can see among other things: software-defined anything, connected home, and prescriptive analytics. Note that in the right-hand side there are technologies which are considered mature, such as: speech recognition, enterprise 3D printings and in-memory analytics. "Complex event processing" is moving slowly down the disillusionment path. </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-40265021102976251512014-08-15T13:16:00.003+03:002014-08-15T13:17:29.460+03:00My upcoming talk in INTEROP, September 29, NYC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">I was invited to give a talk in the</span><span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://www.interop.com/newyork/scheduler/session/internet-of-things-summit" target="_blank">Internet of Things summit</a> </span><span style="color: #b45f06;">that will take place in INTEROP, in NYC September 29. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">My talk will be about "The Internet of Things and Personalization", the area I am investigating nowadays.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Other speakers will be Richard Soley, CEO of OMG, and John Morris, VP of ComplexIT. </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;">The moderator is Chris Taylor from TIBCO, a well known writer in this area.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Anybody that wishes to meet me in the NYC area during that week - please let me know. </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-32397652851205309522014-08-11T20:04:00.000+03:002014-08-11T22:44:47.324+03:00Book review: The Decline and Fall of IBM <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: magenta;">Since I spent more than 16 years in IBM, I read with interest a</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Decline-Fall-IBM-American-ebook/dp/B00KRHWZ22" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">small book</span></a><span style="color: magenta;"> authored by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Robert Cringley</span></a><span style="color: magenta;">, a journalist that has investigated the insides of IBM during the last few years. The title is a paraphrase on the famous book: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">"</span><span style="color: red;">The decline and fall of the Roman Empire</span></a><span style="color: magenta;">", and indeed when I was young and IBM dominated the IT market it looked like the Roman Empire from the outside. Cringley starts by surveying IBM's history , getting to Lou Gerstner period where he saved IBM for a while, while he mentions the good things that Gerstner did for IBM he also mentions some of his mistakes: building competitive services arm using cheaper labor, which deteriorated the quality, the second mistake is selling the networking business to AT&T, and the biggest mistake according to Cringley is nominating Sam Palmisano to be his successor.</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">His main criticism is indeed addressed at Palmisano by taking the "shareholder only" approach to extreme (I have written before about the </span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2014/05/on-shareholder-value-myth.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">shareholder value myth</span></a><span style="color: magenta;">). Maximizing the shareholder value, and the "</span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ginni-rometty-and-2015-road-map-2014-5" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">2015 roadmap</span></a><span style="color: magenta;">" making the $20 Earning Per Share as the only game in town. Kringley claims that by doing it IBM became a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_cow" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">cash cow</span></a><span style="color: magenta;">, Meeting the 2015 roadmap involves financial engineering, such as spending $101 Billion dollars on buying back around third of its shares, inflating the value artificially, moreover, IBM does it with borrowed money. The problem is not only the financial aspect, constants cutbacks in workforce hurt the quality of service of IBM to customers, and IBM suffered various contract cancellations. He also criticises the HR aspect, IBM is calling its employees "resources" and the workforce reduction is called "resource action". My note: once when I worked in IBM we had a meeting of HR director from the USA with all manager, and when she kept talking about people as "resources", one of my colleagues remarked that in the Israeli culture is considered as a big insult, like calling person "it" in English. She tried her best to use the term "people" or "employees", but it was difficult for her, since she really thinks on people as resources, however, people don't like to be treated as resources, and the current policies create a dissonance between the upper management and many employees. Finally he analyzes the areas where IBM is active: hardware, software, services, analytics, mobile and cloud, analyzes IBM problems in each of the area, and talks about possible solution. The author's conclusion is quite pessimistic for the future of IBM unless the current CEO Ginni Rommety will make fundamental changes. He also brings a lot of letters from insiders to reinforce his opinions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">As a veteran IBMer, many of the things he talked about were familiar to me. I am not qualified to judge IBM strategy, but there is a general sentiment among many people inside IBM that is consistent with his conclusions. However, I believe that IBM which survived more than 100 years will survive this, but probably it will need another Gerstner-like person to get it out of the box it is now... </span></div>
Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-54094385868819342162014-07-27T15:04:00.000+03:002014-07-27T15:04:19.557+03:00More on TOM ISRAEL MAKE-A-THON <div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">After a 10 days vacation in the black forest in Germany, back to work and to blogging. I</span> <a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2014/07/more-on-personalization-tom-israel-make.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">have written a few weeks ago</span> </a><span style="color: #674ea7;">about the very unique event of preparing prototypes of devices for disabled people. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">Now they released </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqrNr_OtBvo" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">a short video</span> </a><span style="color: #674ea7;">highlighting the event and some of the most impressive projects. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">Our Institute of Technological Empowerment is going to work with the organizers on additional projects in thee area of using technology to aid disabled people. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">This is a picture of rocket interception by a system called </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">"Iron Dome</span></a><span style="color: blue;">". We live in Israel which has been suffering in the last week massive attacks of rockets. The defense answer to these rockets is an amazing technology developed in Israel which demonstrates the principle of </span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2012/07/debs-2012-our-presentation-on-basic.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">proactive event-driven computing</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> in real life. The system consists of the detection part which identifies that a rocket has been launched, the prediction part that anticipates where the rocket will hit, a decision part that decides whether it is necessary to intercept the rocket, this is a cost-benefit analysis. In many cases the rockets hit empty spaces, in that case it is not cost-effective to intercept them, since each activation of this system is quite expensive. If the decision is that it is necessary to intercept the rocket, the decision is what is the best point of interception, and a missile is fired accordingly. This is a decision support systems with human in the loop. The missile itself is equipped with electro-optic sensors. During the last few days this technology has proven very effective and eliminated quite a lot of potential damage to the civilian population. Many people have been skeptic about the feasibility of this system. but the results are impressive. Furthermore it is a good demonstration of the proactive event-based paradigm. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The blog and myself are going on short vacation in Germany. Will return in two weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">Yesterday we conducted a meeting of people that are interested in the institute of technological empowerment that I am driving, they came from different sectors - academia, high-tech companies, non-profit organization, municipalities and more... In the meeting I have presented an introduction and initial plan for the institute, and different people presented various aspects -- the societal, the professional behind it, and the various projects we are looking at. I have</span><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/opher.etzion/introduction-to-the-institute-of-technological-empowerment" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"> posted this presentation on slideshare</span></a><span style="color: magenta;">. We are also looking for international collaborators. I'll write more about the type of collaborators we are looking for.</span></div>
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Opher Etzionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10791357917675270335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7831813422886730737.post-27376716546973135012014-07-02T08:41:00.001+03:002014-07-02T08:41:58.627+03:00More on personalization: TOM ISRAEL MAKE-A-THON <div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: magenta;">Yesterday I attended an interesting event, the conclusion of a three days "make-a-thon" in Nazareth called </span></div>
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<a href="http://tomisrael.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">TOM ISRAEL</span></a><span style="color: magenta;">, where different team made a 72 hours work to create prototypes for products that will aid disabled people using 3D printer technology and various software and sensors. I attended the final presentations. Some of them were very impressive, and you may view the challenges on their webpage, although they did not post (yet?) the actual presentations of the teams. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">I have recently written about</span><a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2014/06/personalization-next-frontier.html" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">personalization as the next frontier</span></a><span style="color: red;">.</span><span style="color: magenta;"> This is a good example of what I meant, many of these prototypes was highly personalized to the need of a single person (or maybe a small group of persons). In the mass production world, there is no business model that can generate those products, however the 3D printer technology can make it possible to create product for individuals or small groups. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">Overall this has been very impressive event, and I'll further work with the organizers to collaborate on projects related to the Institute of Technological Empowerment. </span></div>
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The first one by Ramesh Jain, entitled: "<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jain49/multimedia-big-data-140619" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">multimedia & big data</span></a>". Ramesh used the analog of the "blind men trying to understand what is an elephant" that I also <a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2009/03/on-misconceptions-and-fun-in-event.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">used before</span></a> in another context, and says that we create silos by the different senses (and media), and discusses the integration of all events grasped by the different senses (and media) to create storytelling. He discusses some of the challenges of situation modelling and detection in that environment. The challenges and directions are certainly where I believe the world, and the value of big data are taking us.</div>
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The second presentation is by WS02, a Sri-Lanka based company,<span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/suho/wso2-complex-event-processor-wso2-coneu2014" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">introducing their complex event processor</span></a> </span> AKA <a href="http://epthinking.blogspot.co.il/2011/08/siddhi-open-source-event-processing.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Siddhi</span></a>. This is presented in the context of big data and describes the architecture and the language.</div>
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