Fred Brooks

Fred Brooks
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Born	Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (1931-04-19) April 19, 1931 (age 85) Durham, North Carolina
Fields	Computer Science Operating systems Software engineering
Institutions	IBM University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Duke University Harvard University
Alma mater	Duke University (undergraduate) Harvard University (postgraduate)
Thesis	The Analytic Design of Automatic Data Processing Systems (1956)
Doctoral advisor	Howard Aiken
Doctoral students	List Luv Kohli Jeremy Wendt Jason Jerald Eric Burns Sharif Razzaque Paul M. Zimmons Alexandra Bokinsky Ben Lok Brent Insko Michael Meehan Kevin Arthur Rui Bastos David Luebke Mark R. Mine Richard L. Holloway Jeffrey P. Hultquist Elton P. Amburn Russell M. Taylor II Amitabh Varshney Lawrence D. Bergman James Che-Ming Chung Penny L. Rheingans Mark C. Surles John M. Airey Ming Ouh-young Russell Tuck Mark C. Davis Andrew S. Glassner Thomas V. Williams James S. Lipscomb F. Donelson Smith Thomas H. Dunigan, Jr. Edward G. Britton Paul J. Kilpatrick Cheryl C. Sneeringer James W. Sneeringer IV Craig J. Mudge William V. Wright Jan S. Prokop Alfred Paul Oliver William Y. Stevens
Known for	OS/360 The Mythical Man-Month
Notable awards	IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1993) Turing Award (1999) Computer History Museum Fellow (2001) Turing Lecture (2005)
Website 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.

Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, graduating in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, and he received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University in 1956, supervised by Howard Aiken.

Brooks joined IBM in 1956, working in Poughkeepsie, New York and Yorktown, New York. He worked on the architecture of the IBM 7030 Stretch, a $10 million scientific supercomputer of which nine were sold, and the IBM 7950 Harvest computer for the National Security Agency. Subsequently, he became manager for the development of the IBM System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software package. During this time he coined the term computer architecture.

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