Prof. Dr-Ing. Gerhard Weikum is a Research Director (and, as of 2006, also the Managing Director) at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science (MPI) in Saarbruecken, Germany, where he is leading the databases and information systems department. His current research interests include distributed information systems, P2P computing, database performance optimization (automatic tuning) and self-organization (autonomic computing), … Wikipedia
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