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. 

Start of a new semseter and upcoming talks

I have not written recently -- some due to a short vacation (in Paris), and some due to seasonal laziness.. 

In any event - this week the semester started in Israel, and I am giving an Event Processing course again at the Technion, this time I am doing some change in the course.   The course is still based on the EPIA book,  but I am updating now to teach event processing through a model-based approach, which corresponds to the project we are working on recently.  We are going to do first public exposure of this work in ER 2013 in Hong-Kong.  I'll write about it later.  

Next week, I am giving keynote talk in an event oriented workshop co-located with ACM Multimedia 2013.  in which I'll talk about the semantics and modeling of situations and contexts.   Both talks will become public after they are given.   

Towards proactive enterprise intelligence by Gregoris Mentzas

I came across a recent presentation given by Gregoris Mentzis (from NTUA, Greece) entitled "towards proactive enterprise intelligence".  In this presentation Gregoris discusses some research challenges.

The capabilities of proactive enterprise intelligence are defined in slide 21 and seem similar to our definition (I also recognized the pictures).  I'll write more about the two patterns expressed in this slide. 

Reading this presentation is recommended. Enjoy! 

On ACM Distinguished Speaker Program

Today the ACM Distinguished Speaker program announced my inclusion in the list of "ACM Distinguished Speakers".   The program is described in the ACM DSP site,  while this is a big honor, especially looking at list of speakers that include some real giants,  it is not a recognition program, but a program that has a mission stated as:  The DSP is an outreach program if ACM that brings distinguished speakers from academia, industry and government to give presentations to ACM chapters, members and the greater IT community. 


The outreach mission means that by accepting the nomination to ACM Distinguished Speaker, I commit to 
travel and give talks by request of local ACM chapters worldwide, there are some ground rules that can be found on the site,  e.g. to justify international travel (fully funded by ACM) there should be an accumulated audience of 300 people, so it typically entails multiple talks during a single trip.     I am in the opinion that I should spend some of my time in sharing knowledge with the greater community, this is the reason I am teaching, providing long tutorials in various conferences, and wrote (together with Peter Niblett) the book "Event Processing in Action".    Thus, accepting this nomination is another link in the chain, and I'll try to do my best to satisfy requests, especially from places in the world which don't get a lot of talks on the event processing area.


My speaker page shows four proposed talks, three of them deal in event processing:

•  A short tutorial that serves as introduction to event processing -- summarizing the material in the EPIA book.
• A talk about the research challenges that exist and a "call for action" to the research community in a way to move the event processing area towards its next generations
• A talk about proactive computing, one of the extension directions of event processing, on which I concentrate recently.

The fourth talk is on more general theme:   Computer Science Research in Industry -- some history and different models of how it operates.


I hope that it will be both useful to the audience and fun.