Biography

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare is a British computer scientist and winner of the 1980 A.M. Turing Award for "his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages".

After graduating from Oxford and doing some graduate work in Russia, Hoare joined a British compute manufacturer Elliot Brothers, Ltd. where he worked on programming languages, especially the development of a compiler for a version of ALGOL. In 1968 Hoare accepted a professorship in computer science at Queen’s University of Belfast. He returned to Oxford as a computer science professor in 1977. Following his retirement from Oxford in 1999, Hoare became a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, a division of the Microsoft Corporation, in Cambridge, England.

He’s the author of several books and a recipient of the Kyoto Prize for Information Science in 2000 and the John von Neumann Medal in 2011.