Opher Etzion (in Hebrew: עֹפר עציון) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a Professor and head of the IS Academic Department at the

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. Etzion has been instrumental in the development of the complex event processing area of computer science.

Professional background

Etzion was the Chief Scientist of Event Processing at the IBM Haifa Research Lab. Previously, he was Lead Architect of Event Processing Technology at IBM Websphere and a Senior Manager at the IBM Research Division, managing a department that has pioneered projects shaping the field of

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. He is also the founding chair of the

Event Processing Technical Society Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS) is an inclusive group of organizations and individuals aiming to increase awareness of event processing, foster topics for future standardization, and establish event processing as a separate academic disc ...

. Etzion serves as Professor and Academic Adviser to the MIS department of the Yezreel Valley College and adjunct professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Etzion has supervised several doctoral dissertations and masters theses. He has authored or co-authored papers in technical journals and conferences on topics related to active databases,

temporal databases A temporal database stores data relating to time instances. It offers temporal data types and stores information relating to past, present and future time. Temporal databases could be uni-temporal, bi-temporal or tri-temporal. More specifically th ...

, Rule-based systems,

and Autonomic computing. He has given several keynote address and tutorials and has been named an

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Distinguished Speaker. With Peter Niblett, he was the co-author of ''Event Processing in Action'', a comprehensive technical book about event processing. He also co-edited the book ''Temporal Database - Research and Practice''. Prior to joining IBM in 1997, he was a faculty member and Founding Head of the Information Systems Engineering Department at Technion and held professional and managerial positions at

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and in the

Israel Air Force The Israeli Air Force (IAF; he, זְרוֹעַ הָאֲוִיר וְהֶחָלָל, Zroa HaAvir VeHahalal, tl, "Air and Space Arm", commonly known as , ''Kheil HaAvir'', "Air Corps") operates as the aerial warfare branch of the Israel Defense ...

Honors and awards

* The Israeli Air Force Prize (the highest award for the Air Force), 1982 * IBM Outstanding Innovation Award, 2002 and 2013 * IBM Corporate Award, 2010 * ACM Distinguished Speaker, 2011

Published works

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References

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