Fred Brooks

1931 - 2022

Country of citizenship: United States of America

Languages spoken, written or signed: English

Educated at: Harvard University, Duke University, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Occupation: mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, university teacher

Award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Turing Award, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, IEEE John von Neumann Medal, Harvard Centennial Medal, Computer History Museum fellow, Eckert–Mauchly Award, ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award, W. Wallace McDowell Award, ACM Fellow, Fellow of the British Computer Society, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, ACM Distinguished Service Award, Turing Talk, honorary doctor of ETH Zürich, Harry H. Goode Memorial Award

Official website: www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks

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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 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. 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". Brooks received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999. Source: Wikipedia (en)