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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 development of IBM's System/360 family of mainframe computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about those experiences in his seminal book ...
Nov 23, 2022 · Frederick P. Brooks Jr., whose innovative work in computer design and software engineering helped shape the field of computer science, died on Thursday at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was...
Nov 17, 2022 · 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 at Harvard University, where he earned his SM in 1955 and his PhD in 1956.
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. Biography Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., was born in 1931 in Durham NC, and grew up in Greenville NC. He received an A.B. summa cum laude in physics from Duke and a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard, under Howard Aiken, the inventor of the early Harvard computers.
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.’ Learn more about Brooks’s life and work.
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Apr 19, 2007 · Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Kenan Professor Department of Computer Science Brooks Computer Science Building, CB #3175 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 USA brooks@cs.unc.edu. (919) 962-1931 Tel (919) 942-2529 Home. Dr. Brooks passed away on November 17, 2022, at the age of 91, surrounded by family.
Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) 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 the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about those experiences in his seminal book ...
