User:MRA/Michael Ley (restored)

Michael Ley is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Trier (Germany). His primary interests are database systems, information retrieval, digital libraries and electronic publishing.

Since 1993, Ley is the founding editor and principal developer of the dblp computer science bibliography, a widely used open bibliographic database and indexing service in computer science hosted by Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics and the University of Trier.

For creating, developing, and curating DBLP, Ley received the SIGMOD Contribution award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2003 and the VLDB Endowment Special Recognition Award in 1997. On May 13, 2020, he was awarded the 2019 ACM Distinguished Service Award.