Programming Research Group
The Programming Research Group was part of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in Oxford, England, until OUCL became the Department of Computer Science in 2011.
The PRG was founded by Christopher Strachey in 1965 and after his death, C.A.R. Hoare, FRS took over the leadership in 1977. The PRG ethos is summed up by the following quotation from Strachey, found and promulgated by Tony Hoare after he arrived at the PRG:
The PRG was a centre of excellence in the field of formal methods, playing a leading role in the development of the Z notation and CSP. It won Queen's Awards with IBM and Inmos for work in this area.
