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
  • Now, Emeritus Prof, Technical U Berlin
• McCreight
  • Unis: Washington, Stanford, TUM, ETH
  • Worked for Boeing, Xerox PARC, Adobe
  • Now, retired to Switzerland