Erhard Rahm (born 1959) is a German

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and professor at the

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. His research areas are

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and

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Biography

Rahm studied computer science at Kaiserslautern University of Technology from 1979 to 1984 where he also earned his Ph.D. in 1988. From 1988 to 1989 he was a post-doc at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne. He was an assistant professor at Kaiserslautern University of Technology from 1989 to 1994 and received the

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in 1993. Since 1994 he is a full professor for databases at the University of Leipzig. He spent extended research visits at

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in Redmond (WA) and the

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Selected publications

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Selected awards

* VLDB 10-Year Best Paper Award 2011 with

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and

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, * ICDE Influential Paper Award 2013 ICDE Influential Paper Awards
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References

External links

Homepage of Erhard Rahm at University of Leipzig

Publications
in the Digital Bibliography & Library Project
Publications
in

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Entry for Erhard Rahm in Mathematics Genealogy Project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rahm, Erhard Living people 1959 births German computer scientists Computer science educators Database researchers Academic staff of Leipzig University Technical University of Kaiserslautern alumni