About Peter Sanders
Born 1967. Peter Sanders is a German computer scientist and university teacher.
Peter Sanders (born 1967) is a German computer scientist who works as a professor of computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research concerns the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms and data structures, and he is particularly known for his research on suffix sorting and finding shortest paths in road networks.
Sanders was one of the winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2012.
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Who is Peter Sanders?
German computer scientist
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Peter Sanders was born in 1967.
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Peter Sanders is a computer scientist and university teacher.
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Peter Sanders is German.
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· DBpedia: Peter Sanders (computer scientist)
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