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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.
Software And Its Engineering

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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Guggenheim Fellowship 1
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Harry H. Goode Memorial Award 1
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Turing Award 1
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ACM Fellow 1
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Eckert–Mauchly Award 1
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W. Wallace McDowell Award 1
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Computer History Museum Fellow 1
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ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award 1
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Fellow of the British Computer Society 1
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Harvard Centennial Medal 1
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ACM Distinguished Service Award 1
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honorary doctor of ETH Zürich 1
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IEEE John von Neumann Medal 1
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Turing Talk 1
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Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science 1
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National Medal of Technology and Innovation 1
FAQs

What is Brooks's law?

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Brooks's law is the idea that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. Fred Brooks proposed it from his experience leading the software team that built what was perhaps the largest operating system project of its time, the operating system for IBM's new series of machines. He described the lessons he learned in his classic text on software engineering, The Mythical Man-Month.
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Computer Architecture, Fields
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Turing Award

Also in Science Atlas: which discusses this subject.

Source Wikipedia: Fred Brookstier 2

Nationality

United States

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

Sources
1. Wikidata: Fred Brooks
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  • Wikidata Q92609 P569 (date of birth)
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2. Wikipedia: Fred Brooks
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