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German computer scientist
A.K.A.
Байер, Рудольф
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Male
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Birth:
7 May 1939(Wasserlosen, Schweinfurt District, Lower Franconia, Germany)
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Education:
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Champaign County, United States
Technical University of Munich
Munich, Upper Bavaria, Germany
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Technical University of Munich
Munich, Upper Bavaria, Germany
The details
Biography
Rudolf Bayer (born 3 March 1939) is a German computer scientist.
He is a professor emeritus of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich where he has been employed since 1972. He is noted for inventing three data sorting structures: the B-tree (with Edward M. McCreight), the UB-tree (with Volker Markl) and the Red–black tree.
Bayer is a recipient of 2001 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award. In 2005 he was elected as a fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik.