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, Turing Lecture
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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