Birthdate: January 11, 1934
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Tony Hoare is a distinguished British computer scientist recognized for his influential contributions in programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and concurrent computing. He was honored with the prestigious Turing Award in 1980 for his groundbreaking work in the field. Hoare is acknowledged for creating the quicksort algorithm and Hoare logic for verifying program correctness. Additionally, he introduced communicating sequential processes (CSP) for concurrency semantics and collaborated with Edsger Dijkstra on the dining philosophers problem. Hoare has held positions at the University of Oxford and Microsoft Research in Cambridge since 1977.
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