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Rudolf Bayer

Rudolf Bayer

German computer scientist

Rudolf Bayer (born 3 March 1939) is a German computer scientist.

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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.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Rudolf Bayer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. [2]
    GI-Fellow citation, retrieved 2012-03-09.
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