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Rudolf Bayer

1939 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Bayer has received more than 100,003 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Bayer is the 149th most popular computer scientist, the 5,161st most popular biography from Germany and the 2nd most popular German Computer Scientist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Rudolf Bayer ranks 149 out of 245Before him are David Patterson, Christos Papadimitriou, Leslie Valiant, Richard Garriott, Kent Beck, and Paul Graham. After him are Vitalik Buterin, E. Allen Emerson, David Marr, Kathleen Booth, Randy Pausch, and Raj Reddy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Rudolf Bayer ranks 487Before him are Jan-Just Bos, Alan Ayckbourn, Chris Craft, Elizabeth Ashley, Jalal Dabagh, and Koldo Aguirre. After him are Alexey Korneyev, Yoshinobu Miyake, Valerie Harper, Subramanian Swamy, Hildrun Laufer-Claus, and Edoardo Menichelli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Bayer ranks 5,161 out of 7,253Before him are Karl Lauterbach (1963), Uwe Ochsenknecht (1956), Frauke Petry (1975), Karl Allgöwer (1957), Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg (1813), and Tomislav Marić (1973). After him are Georg Gehring (1903), Josef Neckermann (1912), Dieter Hecking (1964), Allison Mack (1982), Hans Rademacher (1892), and Michael Gross (1964).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Germany

Among computer scientists born in Germany, Rudolf Bayer ranks 2Before him are Joseph Weizenbaum (1923). After him are Ian Murdock (1973), Daniel Domscheit-Berg (1978), Werner Koch (1961), Tron (1972), Denny Vrandečić (1978), and Coraline Ada Ehmke (2000).