Awards
- ACM Turing Award for "fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages". The award was presented to him at the ACM Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on 27 October 1980, by Walter Carlson, Chairman of the Awards committee. A transcript of Hoare's speech was published in Communications of the ACM.
- Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1981)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1982)
- Honorary Doctorate of Science by the Queen's University Belfast (1987)
- Knighted for services to education and computer science (2000)
- Kyoto Prize for Information science (2000)
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2005)
- Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mountain View, California Fellow of the Museum "for development of the Quicksort algorithm and for lifelong contributions to the theory of programming languages" (2006)
- Honorary Doctorate of Science from the Department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) (2007)
- Programming Languages Achievement Award (2011)
- IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2011)
- Honorary Doctorate of Science, from the University of Bath (1993)
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