My talk in INTEROP 2014

My talk on Internet of Things and Personalization is available on Slideshare.  This is a shorter variation (with some additions) of my DEBS'14 tutorial.  Enjoy!
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. 

I'll write more insights from the other talks - later. 

My upcoming talk in INTEROP, September 29, NYC

I was invited to give a talk in the Internet of Things summit that will take place in INTEROP, in NYC September 29. 

My talk will be about "The Internet of Things and Personalization", the area I am investigating nowadays.

Other speakers will be  Richard Soley, CEO of OMG, and John Morris, VP of ComplexIT. 
The moderator is Chris Taylor from TIBCO, a well known writer in this area.

Anybody that wishes to meet me in the NYC area during that week - please let me know. 

More on personalization: TOM ISRAEL MAKE-A-THON

Yesterday I attended an interesting event, the conclusion of a three days "make-a-thon" in Nazareth called 

TOM ISRAEL,  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.    

I have recently written about personalization as the next frontier.   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.   

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. 

More from the Big Data workshop -- crowd wisdom vs. expert wisdom

Yesterday I spent all day in the second day of the Technion Computer Engineering center workshop on big data.  There were a few interesting talks, and the organizers promised to put the slides of all talks on their website (eventually).   I chose to write about an interesting talk given by Tova Milo, from Tel-Aviv University.  Tova talked about her work on crowd wisdom,  and also presented a video in which a contestant in a TV show who did not know an answer used the option of - ask the audience, and followed the audience to the wrong result, and out.   The talk discussed some means of knowledge acquisition, how to phrase questions.   The examples she gave were: what to do when I have headache,  and I am looking for a place to go for children attraction in NYC and a nearby restaurant which is children friendly.  

I asked her whether in the case of constant headache it is not better to ask an expert physician, and her answer was that people trust the crowd wisdom more than they trust their physicians, well I think it is a function of who the person is, and who the physician is.  When we planned the trip to New Zealand ,    We could use crowd wisdom, there is a lot of material on the web, of course, but we chose to go to an expert travel advisor and ask for a trip plan (including all travel arrangements), it certainly saved us time, but if one has enough time,  getting advices from the crowd is useful.   I wonder if somebody researched the trade-offs between expert wisdom and crowd wisdom, and classified the cases in which each should be used. 

On Dynamic M2M Event Processing

M2M is one of the realizations of the Internet of Things which attracts a lot of work recently.  Event Processing is in the core of such applications. They don't work in the traditional Internet model of - store and search, but they are intended to alert or act now.     
An interesting presentation from Eclipse Con 2014 (planned for March 2014) is entitled "On  Dynamic M2M Event Processing".  This presentation (marked as a draft) is  by  Hitachi and Oracle.    It talks about event processing within remote devices embedded within   the OSGi component model.  Worth reading -- and we'll see a lot more in this direction.