Teaching at Belfast and Oxford

Abstract

Although as a youth he had been known as ‘the Professor’ by his younger siblings, Tony Hoare’s first academic appointment was in 1968, as Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast. His second was in 1977 as Professor of Computation and Head of the Programming Research Group of the Computing Laboratory at the University of Oxford — until 2011 the closest thing that the University had to a Department of Computer Science.