fred brooks for other people named frederick brooks see frederick brooks disambiguation frederick phillips fred brooks jr born april 19 1931 is an american computer architect software engineer and computer scientist best known for managing the development of ibms system360 family of computers and the os360 software support package then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book the mythical manmonth education born in durham north carolina he attended duke university graduating in 1953 with a bachelor of science degree in physics and he received a phd in applied mathematics computer science from harvard university in 1956 supervised by howard aiken brooks served as the graduate teaching assistant for ken iverson at harvards graduate program in automatic data processing the first such program in the world career and research brooks joined ibm in 1956 working in poughkeepsie new york and yorktown new york he worked on the architecture of the ibm 7030 stretch a 10 million scientific supercomputer of which nine were sold and the ibm 7950 harvest computer for the national security agency subsequently he became manager for the development of the ibm system360 family of computers and the os360 software package during this time he coined the term computer architecture in 1964 brooks accepted an invitation to come to the university of north carolina at chapel hill and founded the universitys computer science department he chaired it for 20 years as of 2013 a few years after leaving ibm he wrote the mythical manmonth being triggered to do so by thomas watson jr who asked him in his exitinterview why it is so much harder to manage software projects than hardware projects in this book brooks made the nowfamous statement adding manpower to a late software project makes it later this has since come to be known as brookss law in addition to the mythical manmonth brooks is also known for the paper no silver bullet essence and accident in software engineering in 2004 in a talk at the computer history museum and also in 2010 in a interview by kevin kelly for an article in wired magazine brooks was asked what do you consider your greatest technological achievement brooks responded the most important single decision i ever made was to change the ibm 360 series from a 6bit byte to an 8bit byte thereby enabling the use of lowercase letters that change propagated everywhere a 20th anniversary edition of the mythical manmonth with four additional chapters was published in 1995 as well as the mythical manmonth his contributions to humancomputer interaction are described in ben schneidermans hci pioneers website service and memberships brooks has served on a number of us national boards and committees defense science board 198386 member artificial intelligence task force 198384 chairman military software task force 198587 member computers in simulation and training task force 198687 national science board 198792 awards and honors in chronological order fellow institute of electrical and electronic engineers 1968 w wallace mcdowell award for outstanding contribution to the computer art ieee computer group 1970 computer sciences distinguished information services award information technology professionals 1970 guggenheim fellowship for studies on computer architecture and human factors of computer systems university of cambridge england 1975 member national academy of engineering 1976 fellow american academy of arts and sciences 1976 computer pioneer award ieee computer society 1982 national medal of technology and innovation 1985 thomas jefferson award university of north carolina at chapel hill 1986 distinguished service award association for computing machinery 1987 harry goode memorial award american federation of information processing societies 1989 foreign member royal netherlands academy of arts and sciences 1991 honorary doctor of technical science swiss federal institute of technology eth zurich 1991 ieee john von neumann medal institute of electrical and electronics engineers 1993 fellow initial inductee association for computing machinery 1994 distinguished fellow british computer society 1994 foreign member of the royal academy of engineering uk 1994 allen newell award association for computing machinery 1994 bower award and prize in science franklin institute 1995 cyberedge journal annual sutherland award april 1997 turing award association for computing machinery 1999 member national academy of sciences 2001 received the computer history museums fellow award for his contributions to computer architecture operating systems and software engineering 2001 eckertmauchly award association for computing machinery and the institute of electrical and electronics engineerscomputer society 2004 ieee virtual reality career award 2010 in january 2005 he gave the turing lecture on the subject of collaboration and telecollaboration in design in 1994 he was inducted as a fellow of the association for computing machinery personal life brooks is an evangelical christian who is active with intervarsity christian fellowship brooks named his eldest son after kenneth e iverson media related to fred brooks at wikimedia commons quotations related to fred brooks at wikiquote vteapl programming languagefeatures apl syntax and symbols ebcdic code page iverson bracket rank shared variables implementationsmajor dyalog apl ibm apl2 apl2000 sharp apl aplx nars2000 dialects a aplnext eli gnu apl j k q kdb lyapas polymorphic programming language ppl communityprofessionalassociations association for computing machinery sigapl british apl association developers analogic corporation carnegie mellon university cmu compuserve the computer company tcc digital equipment corporation dec dna systems dyalog ltd ibm i p sharp associates kx systems manugistics group micro computer machines mcm science research associates scientific time sharing corporation stsc soliton incorporated telecompute integrated systems inc time sharing resources tsr university of maryland people phil abrams bob bernecky larry breed charles brenner fred brooks jim brown adin falkoff patrick e hagerty herbert hellerman roger hui kenneth e iverson dick lathwell eugene mcdonnell robert metzger roger moore alan perlis john scholes j henri schueler bob smith edward h sussenguth jr arthur whitney william yerazunis rodnay zaks other iverson award category commons vtesoftware engineeringfields computer programming requirements engineering software deployment software design software maintenance software testing systems analysis formal methods concepts data modeling enterprise architecture functional specification modeling language orthogonality programming paradigm software software archaeology software architecture software configuration management software development methodology software development process software quality software quality assurance software verification and validation structured analysis orientations agile aspectoriented object orientation ontology service orientation sdlc modelsdevelopmental agile eup executable uml incremental model iterative model prototype model rad up scrum spiral model vmodel waterfall model xp other spice cmmi data model er model function model information model metamodeling object model systems model view model languages idef uml usl sysml softwareengineers victor basili kent beck grady booch fred brooks barry boehm peter chen danese cooper ward cunningham tom demarco edsger w dijkstra delores m etter martin fowler adele goldstine margaret hamilton c a r hoare lois haibt mary jean harrold grace hopper watts humphrey michael a jackson ivar jacobson alan kay nancy leveson stephen j mellor bertrand meyer david parnas trygve reenskaug winston w royce james rumbaugh mary shaw peri tarr elaine weyuker niklaus wirth edward yourdon related fields computer science computer engineering project management risk management systems engineering category commons vtea m turing award laureates1960s alan perlis 1966 maurice vincent wilkes 1967 richard hamming 1968 marvin minsky 1969 1970s james h wilkinson 1970 john mccarthy 1971 edsger w dijkstra 1972 charles bachman 1973 donald knuth 1974 allen newell herbert a simon 1975 michael o rabin dana scott 1976 john backus 1977 robert w floyd 1978 kenneth e iverson 1979 1980s tony hoare 1980 edgar f codd 1981 stephen cook 1982 ken thompson dennis ritchie 1983 niklaus wirth 1984 richard karp 1985 john hopcroft robert tarjan 1986 john cocke 1987 ivan sutherland 1988 william kahan 1989 1990s fernando j corbat 1990 robin milner 1991 butler lampson 1992 juris hartmanis richard e stearns 1993 edward feigenbaum raj reddy 1994 manuel blum 1995 amir pnueli 1996 douglas engelbart 1997 jim gray 1998 fred brooks 1999 2000s andrew yao 2000 olejohan dahl kristen nygaard 2001 ron rivest adi shamir leonard adleman 2002 alan kay 2003 vint cerf bob kahn 2004 peter naur 2005 frances e allen 2006 edmund m clarke e allen emerson joseph sifakis 2007 barbara liskov 2008 charles p thacker 2009 2010s leslie g valiant 2010 judea pearl 2011 shafi goldwasser silvio micali 2012 leslie lamport 2013 michael stonebraker 2014 martin hellman whitfield diffie 2015 tim bernerslee 2016 john l hennessy david patterson 2017 authority control worldcat identities acm dl 81100077256 bibsys 90250430 bnf cb125427921 data dblp bfrederickpbrooksjr gnd 111196531 isni 0000 0001 1053 0599 lccn n88643438 mgp 25260 ndl 00434488 nkc ntk2010599348 selibr 339712 snac w69q6tkp sudoc 034701192 viaf 34570690 