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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 ...
23 Nov 2022 · The computer scientist Frederick P. Brooks Jr. in 2014 with a first-generation Apple Macintosh computer. Dr. Brooks, a technical leader at IBM in the 1960s, admired the design of the Mac,...
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 ...
12 Mei 2020 · More information:https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/brooks_1002187.cfm
"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. Brooks argues that "there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude [tenfold] improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in ...
1 Mei 2024 · 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.
2 Okt 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 ...
