# Peter Buneman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Peter_Buneman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Peter_Buneman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buneman > Source revision: 1349871528 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|British computer scientist|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Peter Buneman | birth_name = Oscar Peter Buneman | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1943}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | field = [Computer Science](/source/Computer_Science) | work_institution = {{Plainlist| *[University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh) *[University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania) *[University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) *[Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science](/source/Laboratory_for_Foundations_of_Computer_Science) * [Digital Curation Centre](/source/Digital_Curation_Centre){{Cite book | last1 = Rusbridge | first1 = C. | last2 = Buneman | first2 = P. | author-link2 = Peter Buneman| last3 = Burnhill | first3 = P. | last4 = Giaretta | first4 = D. | last5 = Ross | first5 = S. | last6 = Lyon | first6 = L. | last7 = Atkinson | first7 = M. | author-link7 = Malcolm Atkinson| chapter = The Digital Curation Centre: A Vision for Digital Curation | doi = 10.1109/LGDI.2005.1612461 | title = 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technology | pages = 31 | year = 2005 | chapter-url = http://eprints.erpanet.org/82/01/DCC_Vision.pdf| isbn = 978-0-7803-9228-1 | s2cid = 20810596 | url = http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/33612/1/33612.pdf }}}} | alma_mater = [Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge](/source/Gonville_and_Caius_College%2C_Cambridge){{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U253802 |title=BUNEMAN, Prof. (Oscar) Peter |work=Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press }}{{subscription required}}
[University of Warwick](/source/University_of_Warwick) | thesis_title = Models of Learning and Memory | thesis_year = 1970 | doctoral_advisor = [Christopher Zeeman](/source/Christopher_Zeeman){{MathGenealogy|id=24429}} | doctoral_students = {{Plainlist| *[Wenfei Fan](/source/Wenfei_Fan) *[Leonid Libkin](/source/Leonid_Libkin) *[Wang-Chiew Tan](/source/Wang-Chiew_Tan)}} | known_for = {{Plainlist| * [Buneman graphs](/source/median_graph) *query languages for nested relations *[data provenance](/source/data_provenance){{Cite book | last1 = Buneman | first1 = P. | last2 = Khanna | first2 = S. | last3 = Wang-Chiew | first3 = T. | doi = 10.1007/3-540-44503-X_20 | chapter = Why and Where: A Characterization of Data Provenance | title = Database Theory — ICDT 2001 | series = Lecture Notes in Computer Science | volume = 1973 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/databasetheoryic0000inte/page/316 316] | year = 2001 | isbn = 978-3-540-41456-8 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.6.1848 | chapter-url-access = registration | chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/databasetheoryic0000inte/page/316 }}}} *[data citation](/source/data_citation){{cite web |last1=Peter Buneman, Susan Davidson, James Frew |title=Why Data Citation Is a Computational Problem |url=https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/9/206243-why-data-citation-is-a-computational-problem/fulltext |website=cacm.acm.org |publisher=ACM Press |access-date=15 February 2024 |language=en}}{{cite web |last1=Buneman |first1=Peter |last2=Christie |first2=Greig |last3=Davies |first3=Jamie A |last4=Dimitrellou |first4=Roza |last5=Harding |first5=Simon D |last6=Pawson |first6=Adam J |last7=Sharman |first7=Joanna L |last8=Wu |first8=Yinjun |title=Why data citation isn't working, and what to do about it |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/databa/baaa022 |website=Database |access-date=15 February 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/databa/baaa022 |date=1 January 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Buneman |first1=Peter |last2=Dosso |first2=Dennis |last3=Lissandrini |first3=Matteo |last4=Silvello |first4=Gianmaria |title=Data citation and the citation graph |url=https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00166 |website=Quantitative Science Studies |access-date=15 February 2024 |pages=1399–1422 |doi=10.1162/qss_a_00166 |date=2021}} | author_abbreviation_bot = | author_abbreviation_zoo = | prizes = {{Plainlist| *[FRS](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society) (2009) * [Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award](/source/Royal_Society_Wolfson_Research_Merit_Award) (2002) * [FRSE](/source/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh) (2004) * [FACM](/source/Association_for_Computing_Machinery) (1999)ACM fellowship citation: http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1669316}} | religion = | footnotes = | website = {{URL|homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/opb}} }} '''Oscar Peter Buneman''' (born 1943) is a British computer scientist who works in the areas of [database systems](/source/database_systems) and [database theory](/source/database_theory).{{ACMPortal|id=81100181021}}{{DBLP|name=Peter Buneman}}{{Scopus|id=7003841263}}{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=peter+buneman|title = Google Scholar}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Atkinson | first1 = M. P. | author-link1 = Malcolm Atkinson| last2 = Buneman | first2 = O. P. | author-link2 = Peter Buneman| doi = 10.1145/62070.45066 | title = Types and persistence in database programming languages | journal = [ACM Computing Surveys](/source/ACM_Computing_Surveys) | volume = 19 | issue = 2 | pages = 105 | year = 1987 | s2cid = 11187867 }}{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1145/1815918.1815928| title = 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| journal = [ACM SIGMOD Record](/source/ACM_SIGMOD_Record)| url = http://www.sigmod.org/publications/interview/pdf/p42.profiles.Buneman.pdf| volume = 38| issue = 2| pages = 42–49| year = 2009| last1 = Winslett | first1 = M. | s2cid = 33110461| author-link = Marianne Winslett}} ==Education== Buneman was educated at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge), where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts while studying the [Cambridge Mathematical Tripos](/source/Cambridge_Mathematical_Tripos) from [Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge](/source/Gonville_and_Caius_College%2C_Cambridge). Buneman went on to study at the [University of Warwick](/source/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](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania), which he held for several decades. In 2002, he moved to the [University of Edinburgh](/source/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](/source/Digital_Curation_Centre), which is located in [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh). Buneman is known for his research in database systems and database theory, in particular for establishing connections between [database](/source/database)s and [programming language theory](/source/programming_language_theory),{{Cite journal | last1 = Buneman | first1 = P. | author-link1 = Peter Buneman| last2 = Davidson | first2 = S. | author-link2 = Susan B. Davidson| last3 = Hillebrand | first3 = G. | last4 = Suciu | first4 = D. | author-link4 = Dan Suciu| title = A query language and optimization techniques for unstructured data | doi = 10.1145/235968.233368 | journal = ACM SIGMOD Record | volume = 25 | issue = 2 | pages = 505 | year = 1996 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.33.1374 | s2cid = 235496438 }} such as introducing [monad](/source/monad_(category_theory))-based [query language](/source/database_query_language)s for nested [relation](/source/Finitary_relation)s and complex object databases.{{Cite journal | last1 = Buneman | first1 = P. | last2 = Naqvi | first2 = S. | last3 = Tannen | first3 = V. | last4 = Wong | first4 = L. | title = Principles of programming with complex objects and collection types | doi = 10.1016/0304-3975(95)00024-Q | journal = [Theoretical Computer Science](/source/Theoretical_Computer_Science_(journal)) | volume = 149 | pages = 3–48 | year = 1995 | doi-access = free }} He also pioneered research on managing [semi-structured data](/source/semi-structured_model),{{Cite book | last1 = Buneman | first1 = P. | last2 = Davidson | first2 = S. | last3 = Fernandez | first3 = M. | last4 = Suciu | first4 = D. | chapter = Adding structure to unstructured data | doi = 10.1007/3-540-62222-5_55 | title = Database Theory — ICDT '97 | series = Lecture Notes in Computer Science | volume = 1186 | pages = 336 | year = 1997 | isbn = 978-3-540-62222-2 | s2cid = 2076813 | url = https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=db_research }}{{cite book |last1=Abiteboul |first1=Serge|author-link1 = Serge Abiteboul |last2=Buneman |first2=Peter|author-link2=Peter Buneman|last3=Suciu| first3=Dan|author-link3=Dan Suciu |date=2000 |title=Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML |publisher=Morgan Kaufmann |isbn=978-1558606227 }} and, recently, research on data [provenance](/source/provenance), annotations, and digital curation. In [computational biology](/source/computational_biology), he is known for his work on reconstructing [phylogenetic tree](/source/phylogenetic_tree)sPeter 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 . based on [Buneman graph](/source/median_graph)s, which are named in his honour. ==Awards and honours== Buneman is a [Fellow of the Royal Society](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society), fellow of the [ACM](/source/Association_for_Computing_Machinery), a fellow of the [Royal Society of Edinburgh](/source/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh), and has won a [Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award](/source/Royal_Society_Wolfson_Research_Merit_Award). He has chaired both flagship research conferences in [data management](/source/data_management), [SIGMOD](/source/SIGMOD) (in 1993) and VLDB (in 2008), as well as the main database theory conference, [PODS](/source/Symposium_on_Principles_of_Database_Systems) (in 2001). Buneman was appointed [Member of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Member_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to data systems and computing.{{London Gazette |issue=60367 |date=29 December 2012 |page=15 |supp=y }} His nomination for the [Royal Society](/source/Royal_Society) reads{{centred pull quote|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.{{Cite web | url=http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27EC%2F2009%2F06%27) | archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6MdBqEvEz?url=http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27EC%2F2009%2F06%27) | url-status=dead | archive-date=2014-01-14 | title=WebCite query result}}}} ==Personal life== Buneman is the son of physicist [Oscar Buneman](/source/Oscar_Buneman). ==References== {{FRS 2009}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Buneman, Peter}} Category:Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Category:Database researchers Category:British computer scientists Category:British fellows of the Royal Society Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Category:Academics of the University of Edinburgh Category:Alumni of the University of Warwick Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire Category:Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders Category:Living people Category:1943 births Category:University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science faculty --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Peter Buneman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buneman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buneman?action=history)). 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