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Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was 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 those experiences in his seminal book The ...
No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering" is a widely discussed paper on software engineering written by Turing Award winner Fred Brooks in 1986.
For landmark contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering. Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. was born April 19, 1931, in Durham, North Carolina. Growing up in the Raleigh/Durham region, he earned his AB in physics at Duke University in 1953. Brooks then joined the pioneering degree program in computer science ...
Nov 23, 2022 · By Steve Lohr. Published Nov. 23, 2022 Updated Nov. 25, 2022. Frederick P. Brooks Jr., whose innovative work in computer design and software engineering helped shape the field of computer...
Fred Brooks, American computer scientist who won the 1999 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, for his ‘landmark contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering.’
Aug 12, 1995 · With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system.
The computing world has lost another of its great pioneers, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Brooks’ immeasurably influential work helped lay the foundations of modern computing hardware design, software engineering, and software project management.
Dec 6, 2022 · Dr Frederick P Brooks Jr, originator of the term "architecture in computing", author of one of the first books to examine the nature of computer programming from a sociotechnical perspective ...
May 12, 2020 · More information:https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/brooks_1002187.cfm
Oct 2, 2020 · Frederick (“Fred”) Brooks, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses the creation of IBM's System/360 architecture, with particular attention to his ...
