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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1931|4|19|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Durham, North Carolina|Durham]], North Carolina
| birth_place = [[Durham, North Carolina|Durham]], North Carolina
| field = [[Computer Science]]
| field = [[Computer Science]] <br> [[Operating systems]] <br> [[Software engineering]]
| alma_mater = [[Duke University]] (undergraduate)<br>[[Harvard University]] (postgraduate)
| alma_mater = [[Duke University]] (undergraduate)<br>[[Harvard University]] (postgraduate)
| thesis_title = The Analytic Design of Automatic Data Processing Systems
| thesis_title = The Analytic Design of Automatic Data Processing Systems
| thesis_url = http://search.proquest.com/docview/301934402
| thesis_url = http://search.proquest.com/docview/301934402
| thesis_year = 1956
| thesis_year = 1956
| doctoral_students = Luv Kohli<br>
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Luv Kohli<br>
Jeremy Wendt<br>
Jeremy Wendt<br>
Jason Jerald<br>
Jason Jerald<br>
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Jan S. Prokop <br>
Jan S. Prokop <br>
Alfred Paul Oliver <br>
Alfred Paul Oliver <br>
William Y. Stevens <br><ref>{{cite web|title=Doctoral Dissertations — Department of Computer Science|url=http://www.cs.unc.edu/cms/publications/doctoral-dissertations|accessdate=7 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. - PhD Students |url=http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/FPB_PhD%20Stu.04.2007.pdf |publisher=Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |accessdate=23 October 2013}}</ref><ref name="mathgene"/>
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| work_institutions = [[International Business Machines|IBM]]<ref>{{cite doi|10.1145/367149.367168}}</ref><br />[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]<br>[[Duke University]]<br>[[Harvard University]]
| work_institutions = [[International Business Machines|IBM]]<ref>{{cite doi|10.1145/367149.367168}}</ref><br />[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]<br>[[Duke University]]<br>[[Harvard University]]
| known_for = [[OS/360]]<br/>''[[The Mythical Man-Month]]''<ref name="mmm"/>
| known_for = [[OS/360]]<br/>''[[The Mythical Man-Month]]''<ref name="mmm"/>
| prizes = [[IEEE John von Neumann Medal]] <small>(1993)</small><br>[[Turing Award]] <small>(1999)</small>
| prizes = [[IEEE John von Neumann Medal]] <small>(1993)</small><br>[[Turing Award]] <small>(1999)</small> <br> [[Computer History Museum]] Fellow (2001)
| doctoral_advisor = [[Howard H. Aiken|Howard Aiken]]<ref name="mathgene" />
| doctoral_advisor = [[Howard H. Aiken|Howard Aiken]]<ref name="mathgene" />
|website = {{URL|//www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks}}
|website = {{URL|//www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks}}

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For other people named Frederick Brooks, see Frederick Brooks (disambiguation).
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.
Born (1931-04-19) April 19, 1931 (age 94)
Durham, North Carolina
Alma materDuke University (undergraduate)
Harvard University (postgraduate)
Known forOS/360
The Mythical Man-Month[5]
AwardsIEEE John von Neumann Medal (1993)
Turing Award (1999)
Computer History Museum Fellow (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Operating systems
Software engineering
InstitutionsIBM[1]
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Duke University
Harvard University
ThesisThe Analytic Design of Automatic Data Processing Systems (1956)
Doctoral advisorHoward Aiken[2]
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
    [3][4][2]
Websitewww.cs.unc.edu/~brooks

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a 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.[5] Brooks has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.[6]

Education

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.[2]

Career

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 $10m 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 System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software package. During this time he coined the term computer architecture.

It was in The Mythical Man-Month that Brooks made the now-famous statement: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." This has since come to be known as the Brooks's law. In addition to The Mythical Man-Month, Brooks is also known for the paper No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accident in Software Engineering.

In 1965, Brooks accepted an invitation to come to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and found the University's computer science department. He chaired it for 20 years. As of 2013 he was still engaged in active research there, primarily in virtual environments and scientific visualization.[7]

In a 2010 interview by Kevin Kelly for an article[8] in Wired Magazine, Brooks was asked "What do you consider your greatest technological achievement?" Brooks responded "The most important single decision I ever made was to change the IBM 360 series from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, thereby enabling the use of lowercase letters. That change propagated everywhere."

A "20th anniversary" edition of The Mythical Man-Month with four additional chapters was published in 1995.[9]

In January 2005 he gave the IEE/BCS annual Turing Lecture in London on the subject of "Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design". In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

As well as The Mythical Man-Month[5] Brooks has authored or co-authored many books and peer reviewed papers[6] including Automatic Data Processing,[10] No Silver Bullet,[11] Computer Architecture,[12] and The Design of Design.[13]

Personal life

Brooks is an evangelical Christian who is active with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.[14]

Service and memberships

He has served on a number of US national boards and committees.[15]

  • Defense Science Board (1983–86)
  • Member, Artificial Intelligence Task Force (1983–84)
  • Chairman, Military Software Task Force (1985–87)
  • Member, Computers in Simulation and Training Task Force (1986–87)
  • National Science Board (1987–1992)

Awards

In chronological order:[15]

See also

References

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  2. ^ a b c Fred Brooks at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Doctoral Dissertations — Department of Computer Science". Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  4. ^ "Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. - PhD Students" (PDF).|publisher=Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |accessdate=23 October 2013}}
  5. ^ a b c Brooks, Frederick P. (1975). The mythical man-month: essays on software engineering. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN 0-201-00650-2.
  6. ^ a b Fred Brooks at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  7. ^ "IBM Archives - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr". IBM. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
  8. ^ Kelly, Kevin (July 28, 2010). "Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything". Wired. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
  9. ^ "The Mythical Man-Month, A Book Review". Retrieved 6 August 2010.
  10. ^ Iverson, Kenneth E.; Brooks, Frederick P. (1969). Automatic data processing: System/360 edition. New York: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-10605-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi:10.1109/MC.1987.1663532, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with |doi=10.1109/MC.1987.1663532 instead.
  12. ^ Brooks, Frederick P.; Blaauw, Gerrit A. (1997). Computer architecture: concepts and evolution. Boston: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-10557-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ Brooks, Frederick P. (2010). The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 0-201-36298-8.
  14. ^ Faculty Biography at UNC.
  15. ^ a b Home Page, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Cite error: The named reference "homepage" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
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