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Fred Brooks

  • O’Regan G
Springer London, (2013), 53-57
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_12
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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 IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.

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O’Regan, G. (2013). Fred Brooks. In Giants of Computing (pp. 53–57). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_12

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