The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Sri Lanka
This page contains a list of the greatest Sri Lankan Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Sri Lanka. This makes Sri Lanka the birth place of the 21st most number of Computer Scientists behind Azerbaijan, and Finland.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Sri Lankan Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Sri Lankan Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Tony Hoare (b. 1934)
With an HPI of 57.42, Tony Hoare is the most famous Sri Lankan Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 43 different languages on wikipedia.
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (; born 11 January 1934), also known as C. A. R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist who has made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and concurrent computing. His work earned him the Turing Award, usually regarded as the highest distinction in computer science, in 1980. Hoare developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959–1960. He developed Hoare logic, an axiomatic basis for verifying program correctness. In the semantics of concurrency, he introduced the formal language communicating sequential processes (CSP) to specify the interactions of concurrent processes, and along with Edsger Dijkstra, formulated the dining philosophers problem. Since 1977, he has held positions at the University of Oxford and Microsoft Research in Cambridge.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Sri Lankan computer scientists born between 1934 and 1934. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Sri Lankan computer scientists include Tony Hoare.
