Rudolf Bayer
TU Munich
Professor
Rudolf Bayer is professor emeritus of
Informatics at the
Technical University of Munich where he had 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. Codd Innovations Award. In 2005 he was elected as a fellow of the
Gesellschaft für Informatik.