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Famous DB Nerds #6 (cont)

Rudolf Bayer

Ed McCreight

 
  • Together, they invented the B-tree (1972)
  • Bayer
    • Extensive database research career
      • access methods (B-tree, UB-tree, ...)
      • deductive and XML databases
      • query processing in digital libraries
    • Professor, Technische Universitat Munchen
  • McCreight
    • Unis: Washington, Stanford, TUM, ETH
    • Worked for Boeing, Xerox PARC, Adobe
    • Now retired to Switzerland