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Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a 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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  • Why big IT projects go wrong

    News Source: Japan Times | 29 days ago
    In 1975, a computer scientist named Fred Brooks published one of the seminal texts in the literature of computing. It had the intriguing title of The Mythical Man-Month and it consisted simply of a set of essays on the art of managing large software
  • Military to help build airstrip for Kodiak Island village

    News Source: Anchorage Daily News | 11 months ago
    The airstrip is a key part of Old Harbor's economic revitalization plan, but it wouldn't happen nearly as fast without the help of the military's Innovative Readiness Training program, which sends soldiers on missions to remote parts of the United
  • National Medal of Technology Winner and SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey, 1927 - ...

    News Source: PR Newswire | over 2 years ago
    Watts Humphrey, founder of the Software Process Program at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and recipient of the National Medal of Technology, died Thursday at his home in Sarasota, Florida . He was 83. (Photo: http://photos.

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  • Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » The Mythical Man-Month

    Blog Source: memex.naughtons.org | 27 days ago
    In 1975, a computer scientist named Fred Brooks published one of the seminal texts in the literature of computing. It had the intriguing title of The Mythical Man-Month and it consisted simply of a set of essays on the art of managing large ...
  • The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. - ...

    Blog Source: quotegeek.com | 27 days ago
    Quotes from Fred Brooks at quotegeek - computers, creation, programming, technology.
  • Facebook Exec: 10 Things I 'Hate' About Working Here (FB ...

    Blog Source: www.embargozone.com | 27 days ago
    This is in clear violation of the law that Fred Brooks established nearly 40 years ago in The Mythical Man Month. And that's exactly what this “supposed” productivity is: myth. I see engineers around me committing code all the time, releasing ...

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