Awards & Winners

Tony Hoare

Date of Birth 11-January-1934
Place of Birth Colombo
(Colombo District, Sri Lanka)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, Charles Antony Richard Hoare
Profession Scientist, Computer Scientist
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare FRS FREng, commonly known as Tony Hoare or C. A. R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist. He developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1960. He also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness, and the formal language Communicating Sequential Processes to specify the interactions of concurrent processes and the inspiration for the occam programming language.

Awards by Tony Hoare

Check all the awards nominated and won by Tony Hoare.

1980


Turing Award
(For his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages)