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Educational Background:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering at OGI School of Science & Engineering at OHSU, August 2005
• B.S in Math and Computer Science. Whitworth University, May 1991

Professional Background:

• Microsoft Corporation -- SDE for database management tools including Access, ADO, and RDS

Areas of Interest:

• Data Management. Current focus on executing queries over data streams using punctuations.

Patents and Publications:

• Peter A. Tucker, David Maier, Tim Sheard, and Paul Stephens. Using Punctuation Schemes to Characterize Strategies for Querying over Data Streams. Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 19(9):1227-1240, September 2007.
• Jin Li, David Maier, Kristin Tufte, Vassilis Papadimos, and Peter Tucker. Semantics and Evaluation Techniques for Window Aggregates in Data Streams. Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD Conference, pages 311-322, June, 2005.
• David Maier, Peter A. Tucker, and Minos Garofalakis. Filtering, Punctuation, Windows and Synopses. In Nauman Chaudhry, Kevin Shaw, and Mahdi Abdelguerfi, editors, Stream Data Management, Chapter 3. Springer, April, 2005.
• Jin Li, David Maier, Kristin Tufte, Vassilis Papadimos and Peter A. Tucker. No Pane, No Gain: Efficient Evaluation of Sliding-Window Aggregates over Data Streams. SIGMOD Record, 34(1):39-44, March, 2005.
• David Maier, Jin Li, Peter Tucker, Kristin Tufte, and Vassilis Papadimos. Semantics of Data Streams and Operators. Proceedings of Database Theory -- ICDT 2005: 10th International Conference, pages 37-52, January, 2005.
• Peter A. Tucker and David Maier. Dealing with Disorder. Workshop on Management and Processing of Data Streams, June, 2003
• Peter A. Tucker, David Maier, Tim Sheard and Leonidas Fegaras. Exploiting Punctuation Semantics in Continuous Data Streams. Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 15(3):555-568, May, 2003
• Peter A. Tucker, David Maier and Tim Sheard. Applying Punctuation Schemes to Queries over Continuous Data Streams. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 26(1):33-40, March, 2003
• Peter A. Tucker, David Maier. Exploiting Punctuation Semantics in Data Streams. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, page 279, February 2002
• Peter Tucker. Rowset Persistence in Microsoft Data Access Components. Microsoft Developer Network News. September/October 1998.
• Patent. "Method of creating a tabular data stream for sending rows of data between client and server." Thulusalamatom Krishnamurthi Anand, Peter A. Tucker, John G. Bennett, Kamaljit S. Bath, Raja Krishnaswamy. Filed 10 November 1997.
• Michael Mee, Peter Tucker, and John McCullough. The DAO of Databases: Using Data Access Objects and the Jet Engine, in C++. Microsoft Systems Journal. January, 1996. pp 35-54.
• Technical Contributor, Microsoft Jet Database Engine Programmer's Guide. Dan Haught, Jim Ferguson. 1995. Microsoft Press. Redmond, Washington.

Professional Memberships and Service

• Keynote Speaker for Future Potential in Computing, 27 February 2007.
• Program Committee for IEEE ICDE 2007.
• Panel Speaker for SIGMOD 2006 Life After Graduation Symposium.
• Member: Association for Computing Machinery (2000-2007)
• Member: IEEE and IEEE Computer Society (2004-2007)