Fred Brooks

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Fred Brooks
Fred Brooks in 2007
Born
Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr.

(1931-04-19)April 19, 1931
Durham, North Carolina, U.S.
DiedNovember 17, 2022(2022-11-17) (aged 91)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Alma mater
Known for
Spouse
Nancy Lee Greenwood
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(m. 1956)​
Children3
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsIBM[1]
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Duke University
Harvard University
ThesisThe Analytic Design of Automatic Data Processing Systems (1956)
Doctoral advisorHoward H. Aiken[2]
Doctoral studentsAndrew Glassner[2]
Websitewww.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/ Edit this at Wikidata

Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing development of IBM's System/360 family of mainframe computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about those experiences in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.[3]

In 1976, Brooks was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to computer system design and the development of academic programs in computer sciences".[4]

Brooks received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.[5][6]

  1. ^ Brooks, F. P. (1960). "The execute operations—a fourth mode of instruction sequencing". Communications of the ACM. 3 (3): 168–170. doi:10.1145/367149.367168. S2CID 37725430.
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  4. ^ "NAE Website – Dr. Frederick P. Brooks". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  5. ^ Frederick P. Brooks Jr. at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ^ Shustek, Len (2015). "An interview with Fred Brooks". Communications of the ACM. 58 (11): 36–40. doi:10.1145/2822519. ISSN 0001-0782. S2CID 44303152.