Rudolf Bayer | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 3, 1939 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Known for | B-tree UB-tree red–black tree |
| Awards | Cross of Merit, First class (1999), SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (2001) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Technical University Munich |
| Thesis | Automorphism Groups and Quotients of Strongly Connected Automata and Monadic Algebras (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Franz Edward Hohn[1] |
| Doctoral students | Christel Baier Volker Markl |
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.[2]