Saturday, June 29, 2013

My visit to Israel

I am happy to get safely back from my Vacation trip to Israel. The trip was incredible. We drove from Egyptian and Jordan borders (observing also Saudi Arabia shore) up to Lebanon border. (skipped checking Syria border this time – not really safe there - but did that in my previous trip…). We visited also the border of Gaza Strip  (Sderot ), crossed a couple other Palestinian territories, bicycling and touring in Jerusalem (met Bill Clinton there!), staying in Tel Aviv , visited also Haifa. We swam in three seas – Dead , Red and Mediterranean and crossed two deserts - Negev and Judaean  visited  King Solomon's Copper Mines  and  Masada Desert Fortress . Plus other activities…

We captured a lot of pictures and videos and I have started published them in my blog. You may want to check 1st two postings here:

-      Praying together with Bill Clinton at the wailing wall in Jerusalem

-          Red Sea Underwater Filming.

Later I plan to put more vids from the trip on my YouTube Chanel - http://www.youtube.com/itrubin  - subscribe!


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Igor Trubin began his engineering career in 1979 as an IBM/370 systems engineer. He earned a Ph.D. in Robotics from St. Petersburg Technical University in 1986 and spent 12 years there as a professor teaching CAD/CAM and Robotics. He has published and presented more than 60 technical papers and conference presentations in robotics, artificial intelligence, IT performance, capacity management, anomaly detection, and FinOps. After moving to the U.S. in 1999, Igor worked at Capital One, IBM, and SunTrust Bank in senior engineering, architecture, and management roles. His 2002 CMG paper on exception detection received a Best Paper Award. He later developed Perfomalist.com, based on his original methods for anomaly, change-point, and trend detection, and created the online course “Performance Anomaly Detection.” At Capital One, he led development of cloud capacity-management and FinOps solutions, including the award-winning OptiCloud application. He has served on the CMG Board of Directors since 2015. Now semi-retired, Igor focuses on research, writing, and consulting. His current work expands his concept of the “Area of Normal Functioning” (ANF) from technical systems to human, orga