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An Interview with C.A.R. Hoare.

An interview with computer scientist Charles Anthony Richard Hoare is presented. Hoare developed the Quicksort algorithm and is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. Topics of discussion include his interest in computers as a philosophical possibility while he was an under...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 38 - 42
Main Author: Shustek, Len
Format: Interview
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Mar2009
Subjects:
Hoare, Charles Anthony Richard
Computer scientists
Microsoft Corp.
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:An interview with computer scientist Charles Anthony Richard Hoare is presented. Hoare developed the Quicksort algorithm and is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. Topics of discussion include his interest in computers as a philosophical possibility while he was an undergraduate at Oxford University.