About the Author

David Luckham has held faculty and invited faculty positions in mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering at eight major universities in Europe and the United States. He was one of the founders of Rational Software Inc. in 1981, supplying both the company’s initial software product and the software team that founded the company. He has been an invited lecturer, keynote speaker, panelist, and U.S. delegate at many international conferences and congresses. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.

His research and consulting activities in business and software technology are aimed at building real-time event driven enterprises. Topics include event driven systems, complex event processing, business activity monitoring, enterprise middleware, multiprocessing and business process languages, event driven systems architecture modeling and simulation, and artificial intelligence (automated deduction and reasoning systems).

He has published five books and more than one hundred technical papers; he has received two ACM/IEEE Best Paper Awards, and several of his papers are now in historical anthologies and book collections. His 2002 book The Power of Events laid the foundations for high-level event processing in real-time business and intelligence-gathering systems: www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201727897/ref%3Dnosim/katehartshosp-20/002-4874956-4852829.

This book builds on The Power of Events. It describes for a general audience of readers the explosion that has taken place since 2002 in applications of high-level event processing to businesses, enterprise management, and more generally, to building the Information Society.