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Tony Hoare , also known as Charles Antony Richard Hoare, was born on January 11, 1934, in Colombo and holds citizenship in the United Kingdom . He is a computer scientist, engineer, programmer, and writer , best known for Quicksort, Quickselect, Hoare logic, Null reference, Communicating sequential processes, Structured programming, and ALGOL .
Hoare was educated at Moscow State University, the University of Oxford, Merton College, Oxford, and Dragon School . Throughout his career, he advised doctoral students such as Clare Martin, Bill Roscoe, Cliff Jones, Stephen Page, Peter Lauer, Stephen Brookes, and Augusto Sampaio .
Tony Hoare's notable works include Hoare logic, Communicating sequential processes, and Quicksort . He has received several awards, such as the Turing Award (1980), Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1981), Faraday Medal (1985), Computer Pioneer Award (1990), Kyoto Prize (2000), and IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2011) . Hoare is married to Jill Pym .
