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Elected Fellow of the ACM
Simon Peyton Jones elected Fellow of the ACM.
In the news | ACM SIGPLAN
Most Influential POPL Paper Award
For the 1993 paper, Imperative functional programming.
Career Award | Microsoft Stories
A Classical Mind: Microsoft Researcher Receives Kyoto Prize
CAMBRIDGE, England, Nov. 6, 2000 — It’s been 50 years since Sir Anthony Hoare studied Latin and Greek as a schoolboy, but he still remembers the difficulty of mastering each tongue’s complicated grammar rules. As hard as he tried, he…
Career Award | Microsoft Stories
Microsoft Research Professor Wins International Acclaim for Pioneering Work in Software Science
CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM, July 14th 2000 — Professor Tony Hoare, a member of Microsoft Research’s lab in Cambridge UK, has been awarded this year’s Kyoto Prize by Japan’s Inamori Foundation for his pioneering and fundamental work in software science. One…