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Peter Baumann (computer scientist)
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computer scientist and professor at Jacobs University, Bremen
Bremen
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, Germany
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, where he is head of the Databases and Web Services group at the School of Engineering and Science.
Academic Positions
Baumann is professor of Computer ScienceComputer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
at Jacobs University, Bremen
Bremen
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, Germany
Germany
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and founder and CEO of rasdaman GmbH.
He has authored and co-authored 65+ book chapters and papers on array (aka raster) databases and further fields, and has given tutorials on raster databases worldwide.
Baumann is active in many bodies concerned with scientific data access:
- member, Open Geospatial ConsortiumOpen Geospatial ConsortiumThe Open Geospatial Consortium , an international voluntary consensus standards organization, originated in 1994. In the OGC, more than 400 commercial, governmental, nonprofit and research organizations worldwide collaborate in a consensus process encouraging development and implementation of open...
; functions:- chair, Coverage Processing Service Working Group
- co-chair, Coverages Working Group
- co-chair, Web Coverage Service Revision Working Group (WCS.RWG)
- founding member and secretary, CODATA Germany
- member, advisory board, GDI-HB (geo data infrastructure for Bremen)
- member, Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information, a Commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences
- representative of Jacobs University Bremen in Kompetenzzentrum Geoinformatik Niedersachsen
- member, e-SDDC (Global Alliance for Enhancing Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries) of UN-GAID
Academic career
Baumann obtained a degree in Computer ScienceComputer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
(1987) from Technical University of Munich
Technical University of Munich
The Technische Universität München is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan...
, a doctorate (1993) in Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
at Darmstadt University of Technology
Darmstadt University of Technology
The Technische Universität Darmstadt, abbreviated TU Darmstadt, is a university in the city of Darmstadt, Germany...
while working with Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics.
He has pursued post-doctoral activities in both industry and academia,
working for Softlab Group in Munich (now Cirquent
Cirquent
Cirquent is a consultancy company that provides IT, Consulting and Professional services. The company headquarters is in Munich, Germany, with additional offices in Austria, Switzerland and the UK....
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and as Assistant Head of the Knowledge Bases Research Group of FORWISS (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-based Systems) / Technical University of Munich
Technical University of Munich
The Technische Universität München is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan...
where he was deputy to Prof. Rudolph Bayer, Ph.D.
Among Dr. Peter Baumann's entrepreneurial acitivites was founding of the spin-off company rasdaman GmbH for commercialization of the world's first multi-dimensional array database system
Database system
A database system is a term that is typically used to encapsulate the constructs of a data model, database Management system and database....
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In August 2004 he was appointed as Professor of Computer Science at Jacobs University Bremen (formerly: International University Bremen).
Awards and Patents
- European IT Prize 1998
- Jos Schepens Memorial Award 1998
- Innovation Prize of the Bavarian State Government 1998
- Founders Competition Multimedia 1998
Baumann holds international patents on array databases.
Research interests
Database
A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...
and Web service
Web service
A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...
support for large, multi-dimensional arrays, including algebraic modeling, query language
Query language
Query languages are computer languages used to make queries into databases and information systems.Broadly, query languages can be classified according to whether they are database query languages or information retrieval query languages...
, query optimization
Query optimization
Query optimization is a function of many relational database management systems in which multiple query plans for satisfying a query are examined and a good query plan is identified. This may or not be the absolute best strategy because there are many ways of doing plans. There is a trade-off...
, system architecture, and applications such as earth sciences and life sciences
Life sciences
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. As part of this research, standardization
Standardization
Standardization is the process of developing and implementing technical standards.The goals of standardization can be to help with independence of single suppliers , compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability, or quality....
of geo raster services is being addressed. As such, it is related to Dimensional databases, however with a distinct focus on spatio-temporal, multi-dimensional raster graphics
Raster graphics
In computer graphics, a raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium...
data, rather than business data.
Much of his concrete work is implemented and benchmarked in the framework of the rasdaman array DBMS.