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An interview with C.A.R. Hoare

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 3

Pages 38 - 41

https://doi.org/10.1145/1467247.1467261

Published: 01 March 2009 Publication History

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C.A.R. Hoare, developer of the Quicksort algorithm and a lifelong contributor to the theory and design of programming languages, discusses the practical application of his theoretical ideas.

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An interview with C.A.R. Hoare
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Knowledge representation and reasoning
2. Theory of computation

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Communications of the ACM Volume 52, Issue 3

Being Human in the Digital Age

March 2009

138 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1467247

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