Fred Brooks

Fred Brooks
Fred Brooks
	Fred 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.
Alma mater	Duke University; Harvard University;
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 the development of IBM's System/360 family of 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.

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