Peter Buneman Explained

Peter Buneman
Birth Name:Oscar Peter Buneman
Nationality:British
Field:Computer Science
Alma Mater:Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge[1]
University of Warwick
Thesis Title:Models of Learning and Memory
Thesis Year:1970
Doctoral Advisor:Christopher Zeeman
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Oscar Peter Buneman, (born 1943) is a British computer scientist who works in the areas of database systems and database theory.[5] [6] [7]

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.

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, 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,[8] such as introducing monad-based query languages for nested relations and complex object databases.[9] He also pioneered research on managing semi-structured data,[10] [11] and, recently, research on data provenance, annotations, and digital curation.

In computational biology, he is known for his work on reconstructing phylogenetic trees[12] 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.

References

  1. Web site: BUNEMAN, Prof. (Oscar) Peter . Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press .
  2. Web site: Peter Buneman, Susan Davidson, James Frew . Why Data Citation Is a Computational Problem . cacm.acm.org . ACM Press . 15 February 2024 . en.
  3. Web site: Buneman . Peter . Christie . Greig . Davies . Jamie A . Dimitrellou . Roza . Harding . Simon D . Pawson . Adam J . Sharman . Joanna L . Wu . Yinjun . Why data citation isn't working, and what to do about it . Database . 15 February 2024 . en . 10.1093/databa/baaa022 . 1 January 2020.
  4. Web site: Buneman . Peter . Dosso . Dennis . Lissandrini . Matteo . Silvello . Gianmaria . Data citation and the citation graph . Quantitative Science Studies . 15 February 2024 . 1399–1422 . 10.1162/qss_a_00166 . 2021.
  5. Web site: Google Scholar.
  6. Atkinson . M. P. . Malcolm Atkinson. Buneman . O. P. . Peter Buneman. 10.1145/62070.45066 . Types and persistence in database programming languages . . 19 . 2 . 105 . 1987 . 11187867 .
  7. 10.1145/1815918.1815928. Peter Buneman speaks out on phylogeny, the integration of databases and programming languages, curated databases, british plumbing, the value of talking to users, when to ignore the literature, and more. ACM SIGMOD Record. 38. 2. 42–49. 2009. Winslett . M. . 33110461. Marianne Winslett.
  8. Buneman . P. . Peter Buneman. Davidson . S. . Susan B. Davidson. Hillebrand . G. . Suciu . D. . Dan Suciu. A query language and optimization techniques for unstructured data . 10.1145/235968.233368 . ACM SIGMOD Record . 25 . 2 . 505 . 1996 . 10.1.1.33.1374 . 235496438 .
  9. Buneman . P. . Naqvi . S. . Tannen . V. . Wong . L. . Principles of programming with complex objects and collection types . 10.1016/0304-3975(95)00024-Q . . 149 . 3–48 . 1995 . free .
  10. Book: Buneman . P. . Davidson . S. . Fernandez . M. . Suciu . D. . Adding structure to unstructured data . 10.1007/3-540-62222-5_55 . Database Theory — ICDT '97 . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 1186 . 336 . 1997 . 978-3-540-62222-2 . 2076813 .
  11. Book: Abiteboul . Serge. Serge Abiteboul . Buneman . Peter. Peter Buneman. Suciu. Dan. Dan Suciu . 2000 . Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML . Morgan Kaufmann . 978-1558606227 .
  12. 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 .

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