Fred Brooks
Computer Scientist
1931 –
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Who is Fred Brooks?
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. is a 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 the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.
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- Born
- Apr 19, 1931
Durham - Also known as
- Frederick P. Brooks
- Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.
- Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, Duke University
Physics
( - 1953) - PhD, Harvard University
Applied mathematics
( - 1956)
- Bachelor of Arts, Duke University
- Employment
- Chair, Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(1964 - ) - IBM
(1956 - 1964)
- Chair, Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Lived in
- Durham
- Chapel Hill
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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