Editing Christopher Strachey (section)

==Legacy==
The [[Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford|Department of Computer Science]] at the [[University of Oxford]] has a '''Christopher Strachey Professorship of Computing''',<ref name="cs-strachey-prof">{{cite web| url=https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1988-full.html | title=Christopher Strachey Professorship of Computing | publisher=[[Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford]] | date=5 November 2021 | access-date=18 January 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://governance.admin.ox.ac.uk/legislation/christopher-strachey-professor-of-computing | title=Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing | publisher=[[University of Oxford]] | date=28 October 2021 | access-date=18 January 2024 }}</ref> which has been held by the following:

* Sir [[Tony Hoare]] FRS (1988–2000)<ref name="cs-strachey-prof" />
* [[Samson Abramsky]] FRS (2000–2021)<ref name="abramsky">{{cite web| url=http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/samson.abramsky/ | title=Samson Abramsky | publisher=[[Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford]] | location=UK | access-date=18 January 2017 }}</ref>
* [[Nobuko Yoshida]] (2022 onwards)<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2070-full.html | title=Welcome to our new Strachey Chair, Professor Nobuko Yoshida | publisher=[[Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford]] | date=29 June 2022 | access-date=18 January 2024 }}</ref>

In November 2016, a ''Strachey 100'' event was held at Oxford University to celebrate the centenary of Strachey's birth,<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/strachey100/ | title=Strachey 100: Celebrating the life and research of Christopher Strachey | publisher=[[Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford]] | location=UK |year=2016 | access-date=18 January 2017 }}</ref> including a viewing at the [[Weston Library]] in Oxford of the Christopher Strachey archive held in the [[Bodleian Library]] collection.<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.bcs.org/media/3084/facs-dec16.pdf | last=Bowen | first=Jonathan P. | author-link=Jonathan Bowen | title=Strachey 100 Centenary Conference: Photographs of Strachey 100 | journal=[[FACS FACTS]] | publisher=[[BCS-FACS]]  | location=UK | volume=2 | year=2016 | pages=44–52 | access-date=18 January 2017 }} (Also [https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/strachey100/photos/Bowen-photos.pdf here].)</ref>