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Fred Brooks

Software Engineering

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Computing Atlas. "Fred Brooks." Accessed September 1, 2026. https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/fred-brooks.

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Computing Atlas. (n.d.). Fred Brooks. Retrieved September 1, 2026, from https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/fred-brooks

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@misc{computingatlas-fred-brooks,
  author = {Computing Atlas},
  title = {Fred Brooks},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/fred-brooks},
  note = {Accessed September 1, 2026}
}

Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. 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 its OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about that experience in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976 and received the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the 1999 ACM Turing Award.

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Birth Date

1931-04-19 1

Death Date

2022-11-17 1

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Also in Science Atlas: Turing Award, discussed there.

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1. Wikipedia: Fred Brooks

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