Gerhard Weikum (born September 28, 1957) is a German computer scientist and Research Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrucken, Germany, where he leads the databases and information systems department. His research interests include transactional and distributed systems, self-tuning database systems, data and text integration, and the automatic construction of knowledge bases, and he is one of the creators of the YAGO knowledge base. He is also Dean of the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science. He received the Konrad Zuse Medal in 2021.
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G. Weikum
Wikidata P166: SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
Wikidata P166 (award received): SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award.
Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
Wikidata P166: Seoul Test of Time Award
Wikidata P166 (award received): Seoul Test of Time Award.
Wikidata P166: honorary doctor of the University of Athens
Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctor of the University of Athens.
Wikidata P166: Konrad Zuse Medal
Wikidata P166 (award received): Konrad Zuse Medal.
Wikidata alias: G Weikum
G Weikum
P569 (date of birth): year 1957
1957
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