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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. www.britannica.com › biography › Tony-HoareTony Hoare | Biography & Facts | Britannica

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   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. amturing.acm.org › award_winners › hoare_4622167C. Antony R. Hoare - A.M. Turing Award Laureate

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   “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.

4. cs.stanford.edu › projects › tony-hoareTony Hoare >> Biography - Stanford University

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   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.

5. www.microsoft.com › en-us › researchTony Hoare at Microsoft Research

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   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.

6. www.computer.org › profiles › tony-hoareSir Charles Antony Richard Hoare - IEEE Computer Society

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   Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare is a senior researcher in the Programming Principles and Tools group at Microsoft Research Cambridge (U.K.). Born in Colombo (Ceylon, now Sri Lanka) to British parents, he received his Bachelor’s degree in Classics from the University of Oxford (Merton College) in 1956.

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   Who is Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare?

   • 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. He started his career in 1960 as a programmer for Elliott Brothers Ltd, a small British computer manufacturer.

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   Where was Tony Hoare born & raised?

   • Tony Hoare was born in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to British parents; his father was a colonial civil servant and his mother was the daughter of a tea planter. Hoare was educated in England at the Dragon School in Oxford and the King's School in Canterbury.

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   Why was Tony Hoare interested in computing?

   • 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.

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   Did Tony Hoare 'invent' the null reference?

   • Speaking at a software conference in 2009, Tony Hoare hyperbolically apologized for "inventing" the null reference: I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. At that time, I was designing the first comprehensive type system for references in an object oriented language ( ALGOL W ).

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8. www.cs.ox.ac.uk › people › tonyTony Hoare | Department of Computer Science

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   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.