Peter Buneman

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Peter Buneman
Born
Oscar Peter Buneman

1943 (age 80–81)
NationalityBritish
Alma materGonville and Caius College, Cambridge[5]
University of Warwick
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Computer Science
Institutions
Thesis Models of Learning and Memory  (1970)
Doctoral advisorChristopher Zeeman[4]
Doctoral students
Websitehomepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/opb

Oscar Peter Buneman,

database systems and database theory.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

Education

Buneman was educated at 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.[4]

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,[3] which is located in Edinburgh.

Buneman is known for his research in database systems and database theory, in particular for establishing connections between

query languages for nested relations and complex object databases.[18]
He also pioneered research on managing semi-structured data,[19][20] and, recently, research on data provenance, annotations, and digital curation.

In computational biology, he is known for his work on reconstructing phylogenetic trees[21] 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

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.[22] His nomination for the Royal Society
reads

Peter Buneman is distinguished for his advances in uniting programming languages and databases. On the theoretical side this has involved new results in types, monads and structural recursion including (with his student Ohori) type inference for record types, and (with Tannen et al) results that demonstrated a tight connection between monad-based languages and those based on the predicate calculus. On the application side, he used these techniques to demonstrate that – contrary to an assertion by the US Department of Energy – queries on existing non-relational genomic databases could be directly evaluated; fruitful collaboration with biologists ensued.

This research carries over into his recent study of the principles of semistructured or "web-like" data. He is a leading proponent of this new field, and co-author of the first text book in it. Another recent concern is with the provenance of data on the Web, where data is continually copied and transformed. Already, with Khanna et al. he has built an efficient archiving system for scientific databases; more fundamentally, he seeks a formal basis for tracing provenance.

In addition to his work in databases, Buneman's early work on mathematical phylogeny underlies most modern phylogenetic reconstruction techniques.[1]

Personal life

Buneman is the son of physicist Oscar Buneman.

References

  1. ^ a b "WebCite query result". Archived from the original on 14 January 2014. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  2. ^ ACM fellowship citation: http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1669316
  3. ^
    S2CID 20810596
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  4. ^ a b c Peter Buneman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ "BUNEMAN, Prof. (Oscar) Peter". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  6. ISBN 978-3-540-41456-8
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  7. ^ Peter Buneman, Susan Davidson, James Frew. "Why Data Citation Is a Computational Problem". cacm.acm.org. ACM Press. Retrieved 15 February 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. doi:10.1093/databa/baaa022
    . Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  9. doi:10.1162/qss_a_00166
    . Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  10. ^ Peter Buneman author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  11. ^ Peter Buneman at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  12. Microsoft Academic
  13. ^ Peter Buneman's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  14. ^ "Google Scholar".
  15. S2CID 11187867
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  16. S2CID 33110461
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  17. S2CID 235496438
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  18. doi:10.1016/0304-3975(95)00024-Q
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  19. S2CID 2076813
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  20. ISBN 978-1558606227
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  21. ^ 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 .
  22. ^ "No. 60367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 15.
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