!!Peter Buneman - Curriculum Vitae
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__Education: __
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*PhD in Mathematics (1970), University of Warwick (Supervisor E.C. Zeeman) \\
*MA in Mathematics, Cambridge (1966)\\
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__Academic record__
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*2002-present: Professor of Database Systems, Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh (also: Research Director, Digital Curation Centre, 2002-2008)\\
*1975-2001: Professor (assistant, associate, full) of Computer Science, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania\\
*1981-1987: Graduate Chairman, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania\\
*1970-1974: Research Associate and subsequently Lecturer in the School of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University\\
*Visiting Resarcher, INRIA, Jan 1999 and May 1991\\
*Visiting Research Fellowship sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Spring 1997 \\
*Visiting Research Fellowship sponsored by the British SERC, Spring 1991, Imperial College, London
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__Research Interests__
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__Databases:__ semistructured data, XML, data provenance, programming language interfaces, query languages, data models, knowledge bases, database semantics, user interfaces, distributed databases, database monitoring.\\
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__Programming Languages:__ database interfaces, applicative and functional languages, type systems, implementation techniques, semantics.\\
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__General:__ mathematical phylogeny, neural models, cognitive science, data structures, graph theory, combinatorics, applications of computers in the humanities\\
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Full details at [http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/opb]\\ \\