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Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare FRS FREng, also known as Tony Hoare or by his initials C. A. R. Hoare (⫽ h ɔːr ⫽; born 11 January 1934) is a British computer scientist who has made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and concurrent computing.
Tony Hoare is a renowned computer scientist and Turing Award winner who pioneered the use of assertions, specification languages, and concurrent programming. He has worked in academia and industry, and is currently a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge.
Tony Hoare (born January 11, 1934, Colombo, Sri Lanka) is a British computer scientist and winner of the 1980 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for “his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages.”
- William L. Hosch
Tony is known for many significant research achievements: his sorting and selection algorithms, for example, Quicksort and Find, Hoare logic, and the formal language Communicating Sequential Processes.
Tony Hoare is a British computer scientist who received the ACM Turing Award in 1980 for his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages. He invented the Quicksort algorithm, developed the Hoare triple for reasoning about programs, and explored the challenges of concurrency and software engineering.
Emeritus Professor Sir Tony Hoare, a former Oxford University professor and Turing Award winner, is honoured by the Royal Society for his ground-breaking contributions to programming languages. He developed Quicksort, Hoare logic, CSP and other influential concepts in the field.
Biography. Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare is a British computer scientist who recieved the ACM Turing Award for "his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages." Achievements. Implementation of the first compiler for Algol 60 at Elliott Brothers.
