Professor David Luckham
Welcome to episode six of The Complex Events Podcast brought to you by Voices in Business and sponsored by BEA Systems.
On today’s show, we feature an interview with David Luckham, Research Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) at Stanford University.
Professor Luckham is often referred to as “the Father of CEP”. He has held faculty and invited faculty positions in both mathematics and computer science at eight major universities in Europe and the United States, led the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford University, and was one of the founders of Rational Software, Inc. In his latest book “The Power of Events”, he provides an introduction to complex event processing
David’s website www.complexevents.com provides a forum for cross-industry applications and products that employ any form of CEP, as well as the latest research and developments in event processing
In this, the first part of a two-part interview, David shares his thoughts on CEP and how it compares and works with SOA and business oriented architecture as he speaks with Vicki Zesses of Voices in Business and David Fergie, Principal Architect at BEA Systems.
Show notes for this episode:
00:13 - Introduction
00:46 - Beginning of interview
01:01 - David Luckham’s background
02:14 - CEP versus Event-Driven SOA
07:23 - Adoption of CEP, avoiding pitfalls and “boil the ocean” projects
11:12 - CEP mega-product suite combining discrete event simulation, computer networks, active databases and middleware
14:04 - The difference of CEP versus the individual processes
16:46 - Applying CEP to challenges: information risk, e.g., spyware; employee permissions; accouting process complying with government regulations; detecting opportunities for arbitrage in trading; servicing customers requests in call centers.
18:54 - End of part 1 and wrap-up
Click here for a full transcript of this episode
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Links:
- David Luckham’s Complex Events Processing website
- The Event Processing Technical Society
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