Mathematics & Computer Science Faculty
Peter Tucker

Peter Tucker
Associate Professor
300 W. Hawthorne Road
Spokane, WA 99251
Phone: (509) 777-4664 Fax: (509) 777-4512
Office Location: Lindaman Sem.Center 206A
E-mail: ptucker@whitworth.edu

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Education:
Ph.D. OGI School of Science and Technology,
            Oregon Health and Science University
B.S. Whitworth College

Year Joined Whitworth Faculty:  2003

Areas of Specialization / Expertise:
Computer science; databases; software-design engineering.

Selected Publications / Presentations / Honors:
Presentations include: "Punctuated Data Streams," at the Eastern Washington University Computer Science Colloquium (2008); Pierce and Tucker, "A Math/CS Career Prep Course," in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Section of the Mathematical Association of America, 19-21 June 2008.
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Publications include: co-author, "A Career Preparation Course for Students in Mathematics and Computer Science" in the Conference of Association for Christian in the Mathematical Sciences (2009); co-author of "Using Punctuation Schemes to Characterize Strategies for Querying Over Data Streams" in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2007); "Semantics and Evaluation Techniques for Window Aggregates in Data Streams," Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD Conference; "Semantics of Data Streams and Operators," Proceedings of Database Theory– ICDT 2005: 10th International Conference; "Exploiting Punctuation Semantics in Continuous Data Streams" in TKDE Special Issue Online Analysis and Querying of Continuous Data Streams (2003); "Rowset Persistence in Microsoft Data Access Components," in Microsoft Developer Network News (1998).Article reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2008).Presentations include: "Endless Data Streams and Queries" at the Spokane IT SIG Alliance (2008); keynote speaker, "My Road to IT: A Day in the Life of an IT Professional," for the inaugural Future in Computing Seminar (2007); panel participant, ACM SIGMOD 2006 Life After Graduation Symposium, part of ACM SIGMOD Conference; program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey (2007).Software-design engineer for Microsoft Corporation, 1991-99.



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