Fred Brooks
American computer scientist (1931–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about those experiences in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.[1]
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Born | Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. (1931-04-19)April 19, 1931 Durham, North Carolina, U.S. |
Died | November 17, 2022(2022-11-17) (aged 91) |
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Nancy Lee Greenwood (m. 1956) |
Children | 3 |
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Institutions | IBM[2] University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Duke University Harvard University |
Thesis | The Analytic Design of Automatic Data Processing Systems (1956) |
Doctoral advisor | Howard H. Aiken[3] |
Doctoral students | Andrew Glassner[3] |
Website | www |
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]