Fred Brooks

www.cs.unc.edu

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr., author of The Mythical Man Month, No Silver Bullet, and the recipient of the 1999 ACM Turing Award, for "landmark contributions to Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, and Software Engineering". Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His biography/resume is at www.cs.unc.edu . He Invented The Term "Computer Architecture". His time at International Business Machines seems to have been the basis of his most famous work: he invented modern hardware interrupt systems while working on the Ibm Stretch, he led the whole Ibm System Three Sixty project, and Mythical Man Month is based mostly on his experience of leading the software development for the 360.

Interestingly, he describes his current research interests as Human Computer Interaction, virtual worlds and 3D interactive computer graphics - not the areas in which his work is widely famous.

He has a new book (2010) not yet found (2014) in any of my nearby libraries (San Diego):

The Design Of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist ISBN:0201362988 I Wiki Fied the title so pages may be found or created -- Chris Garrod 20140404.2218 -- another book shares parts of the same title. Wiki Gnomes please help disambiguate this discrepancy.


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