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Frederick Brooks

Fred Brooks
Fred Brooks.jpg
2007 photo
Born Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.
(1931-04-19) April 19, 1931 (age 86)
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
Known for OS/360
The Mythical Man-Month
Notable awards
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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