Rudolf Bayer

Name: Rudolf Bayer

Born: May 7, 1939

Computer-related contributions

• German computer scientist.
• Professor emeritus of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich.
• Known for inventing three data sorting structures: the B-tree, UB-tree, and the red-black tree.

Honors and awards

• Elected as a fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (2005).
• ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (2001).
• Cross of Merit, First class (1999).