Fred Brooks

Also known as Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr., Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks, Jr, Frederick P. Brooks, Frederick Phillips

American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering

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Best Sudoku Ever

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1962-02-07

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Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 43,374x
Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 41,857x
Social Identity Theory and the Organization
· 1989 · cited 31,503x
User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 29,645x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x

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Quotes

“The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation. i. Additional details concerning the architecture,”
“The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.”
“Some people have called the book the "bible of software engineering". I would agree with that in one respect: that is, everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it.”
“Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.”
“The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”
“Brooks's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”

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Key facts

Born: Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. , ( 1931-04-19 ) April 19, 1931, Durham, North Carolina , U.S.
Died: November 17, 2022 (2022-11-17) (aged 91), Chapel Hill, North Carolina , U.S.
Education: Duke University ( BS ) Harvard University ( MS , PhD )
Known for: OS/360 The Mythical Man-Month
Spouse: Nancy Lee Greenwood ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1956 )
Awards: IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1993) ACM Fellow (1994) Turing Award (1999) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2001) Turing Lecture (2005)
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 H. Aiken
Doctoral students: Andrew Glassner
Website: www .cs .unc .edu /~brooks /

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Official website: www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks
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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 The Mythical Man-Month.

In 1976, Brooks was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to computer system design and the development of academic programs in computer sciences".