Frederick P. Brooks
Computer scientist and software engineer
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. was an American computer scientist who managed IBM's System/360 and OS/360 projects, then wrote The Mythical Man-Month about that work.
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American Born 1931 in Durham, United States Died 2022
About Frederick P. Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. lived from 1931 to 2022 and worked as a computer architect, software engineer and computer scientist. At IBM he helped architect the Stretch and Harvest computers, and he later served as Corporate Project Manager for the System/360 family. He then managed the early development of the Operating System/360 (OS/360) software. In 1964 he founded the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he led it for 20 years. His research there spanned computer architecture, software engineering and interactive 3-D graphics. The Mythical Man-Month, his candid account of his IBM experiences, appeared in 1975 and again in 1995. His honors include the National Medal of Technology and the ACM Turing Award.