Fred Brooks

Author

American computer scientist

1931 -

country of citizenship: United States of America
educated at: Harvard University, Duke University, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
occupation: mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, university teacher
award received: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 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
www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks

Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is 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 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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