Mark Palmer Biography

Mark Palmer is vice president and general manager of the Apama division of Progress Software, with responsibilities for sales, marketing, and product development of the Apama product line.

Palmer has more than 15 years of software industry experience. Prior to joining Progress, Palmer served as director of IONA Technologies' Artix enterprise service bus (ESB) product. He also was co-founder and CIO of YouthStream Media Networks (now Alloy, Inc.) where he oversaw its growth from 0 to 400 people and led the development of its personalization and publishing system. Palmer also has been a developer and architect with Object Design, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation, where he helped build dozens of large-scale distributed systems at companies such as Banker's Trust, Fidelity Investments and Lucent Technologies.

Palmer is widely published and speaks frequently in the fields of complex event processing (CEP), large scale architectures (SOA, EDA), database architecture (memory-based database and event data management), algorithmic trading, and RFID data management. He won an InfoWorld Innovator award in 2005 and named to the InfoWorld Media Group's Innovators Hall of Fame for his work in the area of event processing.

 

Publications

M. Palmer, The International Adoption of Algorithmic Trading.  FUND AIM, 2007

J. Bates and M. Palmer, Five New Frontiers of Algorithmic Trading.  The Trade, 2007

M. Palmer, 10 Myths of EDA and SOA.  The Event Processing Blog, 2007

J. Bates and M. Palmer, The 10 Imperatives of Next-Generation Algorithmic Trading.  2007

J. Bates and M. Palmer, The Algorithmic Kitchen.  2007

J. Bates and M. Palmer, 10 Trends for Algorithmic Trading in the Lead-Up to 2010, The Banker, 2006

M. Palmer and G. Smith, Increase Your ESB’s IQ with CEP.  2006 

M. Palmer, The Enterprise Wire Tap.  2006

M. Palmer, Darwin and Hedge Fund Evolution.  Investor Services Jounal,  2006

M. Palmer, Event Processing ­ Changing the Dynamics of Software, 2006.  IMD Annual Report, 2006

J. Bates and M. Palmer, The Algorithmic Safety Net, Enabling Real-Time Risk Management and Compliance, 2006

M. Palmer, Turning Service Oriented Events into Business Insight.  The interrelationship between SOA and CEP, 2006

M. Palmer, Real Time Pattern Matching:  Enabling Business Insight.  The application of CEP to business event pattern matching, 2006

J. Bates and M. Palmer, Beating HeisenbergAdvanced event processing techniques for algorithmic trading that help combat uncertainty in real-time event processing systems.  STP magazine, September, 2005.

M. Palmer, Event Stream Processing, a New Physics of Computing An architectural introduction to ESP, CEP, event databases, caching and visualization technology.  DMReview. July, 2005

M. Palmer, Die Hürden Meistern (The primary challenges of RFID), The primary challenges of RFID data management, including architecture and design issues. RFID im Blick, 2005.

M. Palmer, Complex Event Processing: The New Physics of Computing. Introduces a new software paradigm and technology area ­ complex event processing. International Developer Magazine, 2005.

M. Palmer, L’etiquette RFID a 6 centimes: la vraie question?   Addresses key questions about RFID adoption and the challenges in software posed by RFID. 01 Informatique, Paris, 2005.

M. Palmer and Ken Rugg, 5 Technology Moves for Real Time Financial Services, Discusses real-time data management issues in algorithmic trading and suggests strategies for addressing them. Waters Magazine, 2005.

M. Palmer and Ken Rugg, The Real Time Data Management Imperative, The changing landscape of data management and the need for real time data management. Database Technologies and Trends, 2005.

David Luckham and M. Palmer, Complex Event Processing and RFID Data Management, Describes Complex Event Processing (CEP) and its crucial role in managing RFID data. RFID Journal, 2004

M. Palmer, The 7 Principles of RFID Data Management, Proposes seven principles for effective large-scale RFID data management. Published in 6 countries, including Enterprise IT (United States), Fokus (Germany), Application Developers Advisors (UK), Sever Magazine (Germany), RFID Forum (Japan), 2004

M. Palmer, Build an Effective RFID Architecture, Describes an architectural approach to effectively manage RFID tag data. RFID Journal, 2004

M. Palmer, The Power, Passion, and Promise of RFID, Discussion of the possibilities of RFID implementations. Executive Technology, 2004

M. Palmer, Handling RFID Data Accurately and at Speed, Approaches to effectively handle RFID data. RFID Today, UK, 2004.

M. Palmer, Overcoming the Challenges of RFID, The primary challenges of standards, business process change, and managing larger data flows in RFID systems. Published in 5 countries, including ZDNet, CNET, eBizQ, 2003

M. Palmer, The Enterprise Service Bus at Work. The enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture and customer patterns for use. EAI Journal, 2003

M. Palmer, The 7 Principles of Web Services and Business Process Management. Web services patterns and principles of large scale business process management. Web Services Journal, 2002.  Won CNET’s “most downloaded paper” award

M. Palmer, et. al, Datacasting: How to Stream Databases over the Internet. A range of issues associated with the design and implementation of large scale database streaming on the web. Contributing author of chapter 5. McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-034678 X, 1998

M. Palmer, Object Data Management for Large Scale Web ApplicationsThe architecture for large-scale dynamic web site. WebApps Magazine, 1996

Dan Woods and M. Palmer, A Personalization Design Pattern for Dynamic Web Sites. A design pattern for dynamic personalization of web sites, developed from experience at CBS, NBC, Excite, and Time Warner. This pattern was later developed into a product by Object Design. WebApps Magazine, 1997

Dan Woods and M. Palmer, Time-Warner’s Personalization System. Detailed case studies on one of the largest personalization web architectures in the early years of dynamic web sites. Distributed Object Computing Magazine, 1996

M. Palmer, ODBMS in Telecommunications. Technical symposium paper to the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council, 1995