Dr. Opher Etzion

Yesterday I attended a talk that described a study about emerging technologies for the elderly. There have been various advancements in this area. Some of them are, in my mind, on the borderline of science fiction, things such as brain transplants that regenerate lost cognitive abilities. With the increase in the span of life, the […]

Solid security is a prerequisite to the Internet of Things becoming more pervasive in today’s world of remote-controlled pacemakers and driverless cars. Here, RT Insights International Technology Editor Dr. Opher Etzion discusses the potentially murderous results of hacked sensors in today’s systems.

How to query the future was the topic of “How to Query the Future: A Moment in the Life of a Continuous Query Processor,” a blog post written on March 31, 2015 by Mark Palmer, Senior Vice President of Integration and Event Processing, at TIBCO Software, Inc., a global infrastructure and business intelligence (BI) software provider. […]

This website has the term “Real-Time” in its title but what do we really mean when we use the term? Here, RTInsights International Technology Editor Dr. Opher Etzion discusses the four types of “real-time” and whether or not we are using the term correctly in all instances.

When everything is interconnected, astounding applications become possible. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vision to empower computers to sense, gather and use information in real-time. Here, RT Insights blogger Dr. Opher Etzion explains how the IoT is doing this via interfaces that respond to sound, motion, optics, temperature, proximity and other environmental sensors.

Last year I spent a challenging two hours with a group of high school students who participated in “The Israeli President Program for the Discovery and Fostering of the Scientists and Inventors of the Future.” I presented some scenarios of computerized systems and asked what they thought the common denominator between the scenarios was. I […]

When RT Insights’ International Technology Editor Dr. Opher Etzion was a programmer in the Israeli Air Force, an analyst there studied aircraft accidents that involved birds. Here, Dr. Etzion shares the statistician’s conclusions following the statistical analysis.