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Fred Brooks

Also Known As Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. · Frederick P. Brooks Jr. · Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks, Jr · Frederick P. Brooks · Frederick Phillips · Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr.
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Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. was an American computer architect, software engineer and computer scientist best known for managing development of IBM's System/360 family of mainframe computers and its OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about that experience in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976 and received the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the 1999 ACM Turing Award. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1931 1
Birth Date
1931-04-19 2
Death Year
2022 1
Death Date
2022-11-17 2
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1. Fred Brooks (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.
    Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.
  • Wikidata P166: Guggenheim Fellowship
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Guggenheim Fellowship.
  • Wikidata P166: Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Harry H. Goode Memorial Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Turing Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Turing Award.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: Eckert-Mauchly Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Eckert-Mauchly Award.
  • Wikidata P166: W. Wallace McDowell Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): W. Wallace McDowell Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Computer History Museum Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Computer History Museum Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the British Computer Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the British Computer Society.
  • Wikidata P166: Harvard Centennial Medal
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Harvard Centennial Medal.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Distinguished Service Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Distinguished Service Award.
  • Wikidata P166: honorary doctor of ETH Zürich
    Wikidata P166 (award received): honorary doctor of ETH Zürich.
  • Wikidata P166: IEEE John von Neumann Medal
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE John von Neumann Medal.
  • Wikidata P166: Turing Talk
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Turing Talk.
  • Wikidata P166: Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science.
  • Wikidata P166: National Medal of Technology and Innovation
    Wikidata P166 (award received): National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
  • Wikidata alias: Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
    Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  • Wikidata alias: Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks, Jr
    Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks, Jr
  • Wikidata alias: Frederick P. Brooks
    Frederick P. Brooks
  • Wikidata alias: Frederick Phillips
    Frederick Phillips
  • Wikidata alias: Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr.
    Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr.
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1931
    1931
  • P570 (date of death): year 2022
    2022
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2. Wikipedia: Fred Brooks
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November 17, 2022
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