Rudolf Bayer (born 7 May 1939) has been Professor (emeritus) of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich since 1972. He is famous for inventing two data sorting structures: the B-tree with Edward M. McCreight, and later the UB-tree with Volker Markl.
He is a recipient of 2001 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award.
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Date of birth:
- May 7, 1939 (age 70 years)
