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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Gerhard Weikum (born September 28, 1957) is a German computer scientist and Research Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, where he is leading the databases and information systems department.
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