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Peter Buneman

b. 1943

British computer scientist

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About Peter Buneman

Born 1943. Peter Buneman is a British computer scientist and university teacher, known for Data provenance and Median graph.

Oscar Peter Buneman (born 1943) is a British computer scientist who works in the areas of database systems and database theory.

Education Buneman was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts while studying the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Buneman went on to study at the University of Warwick, where he received his PhD in 1970. such as introducing monad-based query languages for nested relations and complex object databases. He also pioneered research on managing semi-structured data, and, recently, research on data provenance, annotations, and digital curation.

In computational biology, he is known for his work on reconstructing phylogenetic trees based on Buneman graphs, which are named in his honour.

Awards and honours Buneman is a Fellow of the Royal Society, fellow of the ACM, a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has won a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He has chaired both flagship research conferences in data management, SIGMOD (in 1993) and VLDB (in 2008), as well as the main database theory conference, PODS (in 2001).

Buneman was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to data systems and computing. His nomination for the Royal Society reads

Personal life Buneman is the son of physicist Oscar Buneman.

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Important facts

Born
1943
Birth century
Nationality
Known for
Data provenance, Median graph
Education
University of Warwick, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Employers
University of Pennsylvania, University of Edinburgh
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society; Member of the Order of the British Empire; Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship; ACM Fellow; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Association for Computing Machinery; Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award; Royal Society of Edinburgh
Also known as
Oscar Peter Buneman

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Peter Buneman?

British computer scientist

When was Peter Buneman born?

Peter Buneman was born in 1943.

What is Peter Buneman's occupation?

Peter Buneman is a computer scientist and university teacher.

What is Peter Buneman known for?

Peter Buneman is known for Data provenance and Median graph.

What nationality is Peter Buneman?

Peter Buneman is British.

Sources & further reading

Β· Wikipedia: Peter Buneman

Β· Wikidata: Q7173055

Β· DBpedia: Peter Buneman

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