Sir Tony Hoare, software designer who developed Quicksort, the industry standard for sorting lists

Sir Tony Hoare, who has died aged 92, was a leading figure in computer software design best known for developing a leading ...

Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented Quicksort, dies at the age of 92

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.
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Optimizing sort algorithms on DSPs

In this article, we present the bubble sort and merge sort algorithms. We discuss the cycle counts of these algorithms on the Blackfin processor, and show how to reduce the cycle count of the bubble ...

Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92

Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony ...