Industry Relations Council

The Industry Relations Activities Council’s scope of activities is focused on fostering and expanding ICST’s relations with the key stakeholders in industry, government and other institutions active in the ICT related fields in the scope of the society.  These include academic and research institutes, other professional associations and societies, organizations involved in setting ICT policies, industry and other corporate partners. The Council will develop policies governing the relationships between the society and the respective entities, set industry membership rules, policies and if applicable membership fees, cooperation policies, and exchange program governance. The Council will oversee the drive for the society’s recognition, through sponsorship, visibility of its activities, members and awards and through the sponsorship of society’s awards, programs and student members.

Participate in the Industry Relations Council Activities through Agora.

Eliezer Dekel - Vice Chair

Senior Technical Staff Member Manager
Distributed Middleware IBM Research Laboratory, Haifa, Israel

Eliezer Dekel is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member. He is managing the Distributed Middleware group in the IBM Haifa Research Lab. He led the development of the Distribution and Consistency Services (DCS) component for WebSphere. The DCS component is the foundation for WebSphere's High Availability. It is the first virtual synchrony group communication implementation that is part of commercial application server. Another technology developed by the Distributed Middleware group is a high throughput low latency publish/subscribe messaging technology. This technology is now available as a low latency product offering from IBM: WMQ LLM.

Eliezer Dekel is a subject area editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). He served on numerous conference program committees and organized, or served as chair in some of them. Since joining the Haifa Research Lab in 1992, he has been involved in research in the areas of distributed and fault-tolerant computing, service-oriented technology, and software engineering. He is currently working on technologies for providing Quality of Service, with a focus on dependability, in very large scale multi-tier environments. For this area he initiated together with colleagues the very successful International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS). He is also involved in the ICT funded CoMiFin (Communication Middleware for Monitoring Financial Critical Infrastructure) project.

Eliezer has a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in computer science from the University of Minnesota, and a B.Sc. in mathematics from Ben Gurion University, Israel. Prior to joining the IBM Haifa Research Lab, Eliezer served on the faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas computer science department for over ten years.