Nationality German | Name Rudolf Bayer Role Computer scientist | |
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Born May 7, 1939 (age 85) ( 1939-05-07 ) Institutions Technical University Munich Alma mater University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Thesis Automorphism Groups and Quotients of Strongly Connected Automata and Monadic Algebras (1966) Known for B-treeUB-treered-black tree Education University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | ||
Doctoral advisor Franz Edward Hohn | ||
Rudolf Bayer (born 7 May 1939) is a German computer scientist.
He is professor emeritus of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich where he had 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.
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