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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.

  2. May 1, 2024 · 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.”

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  3. Biography. Tony Hoare's interest in computing was awakened in the early fifties, when he studied philosophy (together with Latin and Greek) at Oxford University, under the tutelage of John Lucas. He was fascinated by the power of mathematical logic as an explanation of the apparent certainty of mathematical truth.

  4. Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare) has conducted research in computer science for over sixty years. He began and finished his career working in industry, while spending the middle half in academia.

  5. “Tony” Hoare, as he is universally known, was named Charles Antony Richard Hoare when born on 11 January 1934 in the city of Colombo in what was Ceylon but is now Sri Lanka. Tony's parents were involved in the business of what was then the British Empire.

  6. Sir Tony has received the Royal Medal (Physical) for ground-breaking contributions that have revolutionised the computer programming field. Throughout his career, Sir Tony has made fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages.

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  8. ACM Books. Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony HoareOctober 2021. Editors: Cliff B. Jones, Jayadev Misra. Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery. New York. NY. United States. ISBN: 978-1-4503-8728-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3477355. Published: 02 October 2021. Pages: 450. Appears In: ACM Books.

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