DEBS 2011 awards

Back in my office now from the DEBS trip,  after spending Saturday in NYC and watched the matinee' show of Wicked, a wonderful musical. 

Last remaining fact about DEBS 2011 is that it is the first instance of DEBS to grant awards, the award granting ceremony occurred at the conference banquet's on Wednesday evening.  The awards are noted on the DEBS 2011 webpage.  Here is the list of awards and award winners:

Best Paper Award:	Gabriela Jacques Da Silva, Buğra Gedik, Henrique Andrade, Kun-Lung Wu, Ravishankar K. Iyer.
	Fault Injection-based Assessment of Partial Fault Tolerance in Stream Processing Applications.
DEBS Challenge Award:	The ETH team:Lynn Aders, René Buffat, Zaheer Chothia, Matthias Wetter, Cagri Balkesen, Peter M. Fischer, Nesime Tatbul.
Best Poster Award:	Nihal Dindar, Peter Fischer, Nesime Tatbul.
	DejaVu: A Complex Event Processing System for Pattern Matching over Live and Historical Data Streams.
Best Demo Award:	Sinan Sen, Ruofeng Lin, Bijan Fahimi Shemrani.
	Complex Event Pattern Evolution based on Real-Time Pattern Execution Statistics.
Best Idea in the DEBS Gong Show:	Mike Lefler.

John Bates was named as a top innovator by Wall Street & Tehcnology

 Wall street&Technology has selected in its recent issue the top 10 innovators of the decade in the capital market areas.   Among these innovators we can find the name of John Bates, currently the CTO of Progress Software.    From the event processing community perspective this is another sign of recognition about the impact of event processing in reality,    We have seen some recognition in the past, when Streamabse was named as one of the 2010 technology pioneers by the World Economic Forum.   This time it is a personal recognition,  John is certainly one of the event processing industry leaders, the start-up he founded Apama was part of the first wave of event processing start-ups,; Apama was the first to implement algorithmic trading using event processing system.    Kudos, John, for this well-deserved recognition, and hope to have many more external recognition indicators to people in the event processing community.