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Tony Hoare
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, known as Sir Tony Hoare or C. A. R. Hoare, was a British computer scientist who made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and concurrent computing. His work earned him the 1980 ACM Turing Award, usually regarded as the highest distinction in computer science.
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Born 11 January 1934 · Died 5 March 2026 · Q92602
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2026· 3 entries
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Died 2026-03-05.
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Fellow (2020).
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (2013).
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2011· 2 entries
Won IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2011).
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Awarded Programming Languages Achievement Award (2011).
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2009· 1 entry
Hoare apologised for inventing the null reference:
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Friedrich L. Bauer Prize (2007).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2005).
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2002· 1 entry
“The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code, but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.”
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (2000).
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (2000).
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1996· 1 entry
“The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intentions of its user.”
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1995· 1 entry
Hoare was led to reflect upon the original assumptions:
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (1990).
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1985· 1 entry
Won Faraday Medal (1985).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1982).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Turing Award (1980).
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1968· 1 entry
And in 1977 returned to Oxford as the Professor of Computing to lead the Programming Research Group in the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford), following the
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1962· 1 entry
Hoare married Jill Pym, a member of his research team, with whom he had three children
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1960· 1 entry
Hoare left the Soviet Union and began working at Elliott Brothers Ltd, a small computer manufacturing firm located in London
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1958· 1 entry
To study for a postgraduate certificate in statistics, and it was here that he began computer programming, having been taught Autocode on the Ferranti Mercury by Leslie Fox
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1956· 1 entry
Did 18 months National Service in the Royal Navy, where he learned Russian
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-01-11.
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