Tony Hoare, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tony Hoare

British computer scientist

Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1934

Place of Birth: Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Profession: writer, engineer, computer scientist, university teacher, programmer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (born 11 January 1934) is a British computer scientist.
He developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959/1960.
He also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness, and the formal language communicating sequential processes (CSP) to specify the interactions of concurrent processes (including the dining philosophers problem) and the inspiration for the occam programming language.