Peter Buneman

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Peter Buneman
Born Oscar Peter Buneman
1943 (age 80–81)
Residence Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Citizenship British
Nationality British
Fields Computer Science
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Alma mater Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge[2]
University of Warwick
Thesis Models of Learning and Memory (1970)
Doctoral advisor Christopher Zeeman[3]
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Website
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/opb

Oscar Peter Buneman, MBE, FRS, FRSE, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (born 1943) is a British computer scientist who works in the areas of database systems and database theory.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

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.[3]

Career

Following his PhD, Buneman worked briefly at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a professorship of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, which he held for several decades. In 2002, he moved to the University of Edinburgh, where he built up the database research group. He is one of the founders and the Associate Director of Research of the UK Digital Curation Centre,[1] which is located in Edinburgh.

Buneman is known for his research in database systems and database theory, in particular for establishing connections between databases and programming language theory,[14] such as introducing monad-based query languages for nested relations and complex object databases.[15] He also pioneered research on managing semi-structured data,[16][17] and, recently, research on data provenance, annotations, and digital curation.

In computational biology, he is known for his work on reconstructing phylogenetic trees[18] 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.[19] His nomination for the Royal Society reads

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Personal life

Buneman is the son of physicist Oscar Buneman.

References

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  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Peter Buneman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  6. ↑ ACM fellowship citation: http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1669316
  7. ↑ Peter Buneman from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
  8. ↑ Peter Buneman's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  9. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  10. ↑ Peter Buneman's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  11. ↑ http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=peter+buneman
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  18. ↑ Peter Buneman (1971), "The recovery of trees from measures of dissimilarity", in Hodson, F. R.; Kendall, D. G. & Tautu, P. T., Mathematics in the Archaeological and Historical Sciences, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 387–395 .
  19. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60367. p. 15. 29 December 2012.
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