Peter Buneman
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| Born | Oscar Peter Buneman 1943 (age 73–74) |
| Residence | Edinburgh, UK |
| Citizenship | British |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Computer Science |
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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University of Warwick |
| Thesis | Models of Learning and Memory (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | Christopher Zeeman |
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Oscar Peter Buneman, MBE, FRS, FRSE (born 1943) is a British computer scientist who works in the areas of database systems and database theory.
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.
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, such as introducing monad-based query languages for nested relations and complex object databases. He also pioneered research on managing semi-structured data, and, recently, research on data provenance, annotations, and digital curation.
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