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      • He is best known for the development of Quicksort, a widely used sorting algorithm. Hoare has also worked with Hoare logic and created the formal language Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) to describe concurrency.
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  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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    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.

  4. Sir Tony Hoare has had an enormous influence on computer science, from the Quicksort algorithm to the science of software development, concurrency and program verification. His contributions have been widely recognised: He was awarded the ACM’s Turing Award in 1980, the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation in 2000, and was knighted for ...

  5. Insight, inspiration and collaboration. C. B. Jones, A. W. Roscoe. Abstract Tony Hoare's many contributions to computing science are marked by insight that was grounded in practical programming.

  6. 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.

  7. Feb 29, 2016 · His work also has had practical impact, with application to commercial software development projects involving database management systems for the telecommunications industry and security and safety applications in the medical, transportation, and nuclear power industries.

  8. Tony Hoare has had an enormous impact on computing: early in his career, he created software for users; even when he addressed more theoretical topics, there was always the aim to affect the way that software could be created.

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