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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 (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.”
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.
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.
Apart from the Turing Prize, Tony Hoare was awarded the Kyoto Prize in 2000, the year he was also Knighted by the Queen for services to education and computer science. He has honorary Doctorates from several universities and is a Fellow of both The Royal Society and The Royal Academy of Engineering.
Hoare logic (also known as Floyd–Hoare logic or Hoare rules) is a formal system with a set of logical rules for reasoning rigorously about the correctness of computer programs. It was proposed in 1969 by the British computer scientist and logician Tony Hoare, and subsequently refined by Hoare and other researchers.
Of the 25 awards for 2022-23, announced today, Emeritus Professor Sir Tony Hoare is one of four Oxford University researchers recognised for their outstanding contributions to science and medicine. Sir Tony has received the Royal Medal (Physical) for ground-breaking contributions that have revolutionised the computer programming field.
Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony Hoare. 2021. 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.
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.
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 ...
