David Luckham

Who is David Luckham?

David Luckham is an emeritus professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. As a graduate student at MIT he was one of the implementers of the first LISP system.

He is best known as the originator of Complex Event Processing as proposed in his book, "The Power of Events" published in 2002. CEP consists of a set of concepts and techniques for processing real time events and extracting information from event streams as they arrive. CEP has since become an enabling technology in many systems that are used to take immediate action in response to incoming streams of events. Applications are described in this book that may now be found in many sectors of business including stock market trading systems, mobile devices, internet operations, fraud detection, the transportation industry, and governmental intelligence gathering. The book also describes advanced event processing techniques such as event abstraction and event hierarchies that are not yet in general practice. Luckham's latest book is "Event Processing for Business", published by Wiley in Nov. 2012.