Rudolf Bayer
Director
Technical University of Munich
Germany
Biography
Rudolf Bayer is an emeritus Professor of Informatics at 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. He 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.
Research Interest
Wireless and Telecommunication