by John Bates, Progress/Apama
Our academic vision for event processing in 1990s
Lessons learned from real business applications
•  What did we omit from the academic vision?
•  How much of the vision has come to pass so far?
Architecture of a commercial event processing platform
Killer applications of event processing
Predictions for the event processing market
Read John Bates’ invited presentation at [...]

by Jonathan Wheatley in São Paulo, FT.com
The fast-moving electronification of Brazil’s futures and stock exchange has continued with the latest in a series of contracts for complex event processing (CEP) platforms to facilitate high-speed algorithmic trading seeking arbitrage opportunities between assets traded in Brazil and overseas.
The arrival of CEP systems over the past year is [...]

In an era of accelerating business processes and exploding volumes of digital event data, companies must master the art of event processing if they are to thrive or even survive, according to Gartner Inc.
Gartner explains how to implement modern event processing systems in the recently released book “Event Processing:
Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies”, published [...]

by Mike Hodgkinson, THE INDEPENDENT
…or at least that’s what Ray Kurzweil thinks. He has spent his life inventing machines that help people, from the blind to dyslexics. Now, he believes we’re on the brink of a new age – the ’singularity’ – when mind-boggling technology will allow us to email each other toast, run as [...]