Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999. April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Software engineering (SE) is the profession concerned with specifying, designing, developing and maintaining software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, and other fields. ... Computer science (informally: CS or compsci) is, in its most general sense, the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software. ... OS/360 was a batch processing operating system developed by IBM for their then-new System/360 mainframe computer, announced in 1964. ... Book cover The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a classic book on software project management written by Fred Brooks. ... The A.M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, graduating in 1953, and he received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University in 1956. Howard Aiken was his advisor. Durham skyline Nickname: City of Medicine Official website: http://www. ... Duke University is a private, coeducational, research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Officially founded as Duke University in 1924, Duke traces its institutional roots back to 1838. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ... Harvard University campus (old map) Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Harvard Mark I / IBM ASCC, left side. ...

Brooks joined IBM in 1956, working in Poughkeepsie and Yorktown, New York. He worked on the architecture of the Stretch (a $10m scientific supercomputer for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) and Harvest computers and then was manager for the development of the System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software they ran. International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) (NYSE: IBM) (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... Poughkeepsie is a city in New York, USA and serves as the county seat of Dutchess County, located in the Hudson River Valley roughly midway between New York City and Albany. ... Yorktown is a town located in Westchester County, New York, about 38 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. ... The IBM 7030, also known as Stretch, was IBMs first attempt at building a supercomputer. ... Los Alamos National Laboratory, aerial view from 1995. ... HARVEST Harvest, also known as the IBM 7950, was a one-of-a-kind adjunct to the Stretch computer which was installed at the US National Security Agency (NSA). ... System/360 Model 65 operators console, with register value lamps and toggle switches (middle of picture) and emergency pull switch (upper right). ... OS/360 was a batch processing operating system developed by IBM for their then-new System/360 mainframe computer, announced in 1964. ...

It was in The Mythical Man-Month that Brooks made the now-famous statement: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." This has since come to be known as "Brooks' law." In addition to The Mythical Man-Month, Brooks is known for No Silver Bullet, an essay on software engineering. Brooks law was stated by Fred Brooks as It appeared in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month. ... No Silver Bullet is a well-known paper on software engineering written by Fred Brooks in 1987. ...

In 1965, Brooks left IBM to found the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chaired it for 20 years. As of 2004 he was still engaged in active research there, primarily in virtual worlds and molecular graphics. In January 2005 he gave the IEE/BCS annual Turing Lecture in London on the subject of "Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Virtual reality (VR) is an environment that is simulated by a computer. ... Molecular graphics is the discipline and philosophy of studying molecules and their properties through graphical representation. ... Not to be confused with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. ... The British Computer Society (BCS) is a professional/academic association within the UK consisting of IT practitioners, the society has a Royal Charter. ... Alan Turing is often considered the father of modern computer science. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ...

He is also a confessional Christian who is active with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (source: [1])

Bibliography

• Brooks, Frederick P.; Kenneth Iverson (1963). Automatic Data Processing.
• Brooks, Frederick P.; Kenneth Iverson (1965). Automatic Data Processing, System/360 Edition. ISBN 0471106054.
• Brooks, Frederick P. (1975, 2nd ed. 1995). The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. ISBN 0201835959.
• Brooks, Frederick P. (1987). No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering. (reprinted in the second edition of The Mythical Man-Month)
• Brooks, Frederick P.; G. A. Blaauw (1997). Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution. ISBN 0201105578.

Kenneth E. Iverson (17 December 1920, Camrose, Alberta/Canada –October 19, 2004,Toronto, Ontario/Canada) was a computer scientist most notable for developing the APL programming language. ... Automatic Data Processing, Inc. ... Kenneth E. Iverson (17 December 1920, Camrose, Alberta/Canada –October 19, 2004,Toronto, Ontario/Canada) was a computer scientist most notable for developing the APL programming language. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Book cover The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a classic book on software project management written by Fred Brooks. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... No Silver Bullet is a well-known paper on software engineering written by Fred Brooks in 1987. ... Gerrit Anne Blaauw (male, b. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Fred Brooks' homepage

See also

• Gene Amdahl
• Gerrit Blaauw