Fred Brooks

Fred Brooks
Fred Brooks
	Brooks in 2007
Born	Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr.; April 19, 1931; Durham, North Carolina, U.S.
Died	November 17, 2022 (aged 91); Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Education	Duke University (BS); Harvard University (MS, PhD);
Known for	OS/360; The Mythical Man-Month;
Spouse	Nancy Lee Greenwood (m. 1956)
Children	3
Awards	IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1993); ACM Fellow (1994); Turing Award (1999); Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2001); Turing Lecture (2005);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science; Operating systems; Software engineering;
Institutions	IBM; 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
Doctoral students	Andrew Glassner
Website	www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/

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]

^ 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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^ "NAE Website – Dr. Frederick P. Brooks". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
^ Frederick P. Brooks Jr. at DBLP Bibliography Server
^ 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.

[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.

[dblp-5] Frederick P. Brooks Jr. at DBLP Bibliography Server

[Shustek2015-6] 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.

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