Fred Brooks

Fred Brooks
Fred Brooks
Born	Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.; April 19, 1931; Durham, North Carolina
Died	November 17, 2022 (aged 91); Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Alma mater	Duke University (undergraduate); Harvard University (postgraduate)
Known for	OS/360; The Mythical Man-Month
Awards	IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1993); Turing Award (1999); Computer History Museum Fellow (2001); Turing Lecture (2005);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science ; Operating systems ; Software engineering
Institutions	IBM; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Duke University; Harvard University
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 ; ;
Website	www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist.

He is best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers alongside Gerrit Blaauw and Gene Amdahl 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.^[4]

Brooks was born in Durham, North Carolina. He studied 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.

References[change | change source]

↑ Brooks, F. P. (1960). "The execute operations---a fourth mode of instruction sequencing". Communications of the ACM. 3 (3): 168–170. doi:10.1145/367149.367168. S2CID 37725430.
↑ "Doctoral Dissertations — Department of Computer Science". Retrieved 7 January 2014.
↑ "Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. - PhD Students" (PDF). Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
↑ Shustek, Len (2015). "An interview with Fred Brooks". Communications of the ACM. 58 (11): 36–40. doi:10.1145/2822519. ISSN 0001-0782. S2CID 44303152.

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