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Frederick P. Brooks
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US-amerikanischer Informatiker (1931–2022)
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Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. was born on April 19, 1931, and died on November 17, 2022. He held an Erdős number of 5.
Brooks was recognized in the Turing Award collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Key facts
- Born
- Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. , ( 1931-04-19 ) April 19, 1931, Durham, North Carolina , U.S.
- Died
- November 17, 2022 (2022-11-17) (aged 91), Chapel Hill, North Carolina , U.S.
- Education
- Duke University ( BS ) Harvard University ( MS , PhD )
- Known for
- OS/360 The Mythical Man-Month
- Spouse
- Nancy Lee Greenwood ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1956 )
- Awards
- IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1993) ACM Fellow (1994) Turing Award (1999) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2001) Turing Lecture (2005)
- Fields
- Computer science Operating systems Software engineering
- Institutions
- IBM , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Duke University , Harvard University
- Thesis
- The Analytic Design of Automatic Data Processing Systems (1956)
- Doctoral advisor
- Howard H. Aiken
- Doctoral students
- Andrew Glassner
- Website
- www .cs .unc .edu /~brooks /
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Frederick
- Family name
- Brooks
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Durham
- Place of death
- Chapel Hill
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- OS/360
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Howard H. Aiken
- Field of work
- informatics
- Official website
- www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks
- Image
- Fred Brooks.jpg
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- Commons category
- Fred Brooks
- Erdős number
- 5
- date of birth
- 1931-04-19
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- name in native language
- Fred Brooks
- date of death
- 2022-11-17
- birth name
- Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr.
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Article · Deutsch
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (* 19. April 1931 in Durham, North Carolina, USA; † 17. November 2022 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) war ein US-amerikanischer Informatiker. Bekannt wurde Brooks zunächst als Verantwortlicher für die Entwicklung des OS/360 bei IBM und später für die sehr authentische Beschreibung des Entwicklungsprozesses in seinem Buch The Mythical Man-Month (deutsch Vom Mythos des Mann-Monats: Essays über Software-Engineering). Dieses Buch enthält auch eine viel zitierte Aussage, die als Brooks’sches Gesetz bekannt wurde: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” „Der Einsatz zusätzlicher Arbeitskräfte bei bereits verzögerten Softwareprojekten verzögert sie nur noch weiter.“ – Frederick P. Brooks: The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering Fred Brooks gilt als Erfinder des Bytes mit 8 bit: “The most important single decision I ever made was to change the IBM 360 series from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, thereby enabling the use of lowercase letters. That change propagated everywhere.” „Die wichtigste Entscheidung, die ich je getroffen habe, war, die IBM-360-Serie von einem 6-Bit-Byte auf ein 8-Bit-Byte umzustellen und damit die Verwendung von Kleinbuchstaben zu ermöglichen. Diese Veränderung verbreitete sich überall.“ – Frederick P. Brooks: Interview in Wired, 20. Juli 2010
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