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Fred Brooks
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 the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about those experiences in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.
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science · American computer scientist (1931–2022) · mathematician · computer scientist · engineer · university teacher · also Fred Brooks, Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr., Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks, Jr, Frederick P. Brooks, Frederick Phillips
Born 19 April 1931 · Died 17 November 2022 · Q92609
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2022· 3 entries
“Some people have called the book the "bible of software engineering". I would agree with that in one respect: that is, everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it.”
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Brooks died on November 17, 2022, at age 91.
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2020· 1 entry
Published “The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence” in The Lancet — cited 11,345 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “glmmTMB Balances Speed and Flexibility Among Packages for Zero-inflated Generalized Linear Mixed Modeling” in The R Journal — cited 11,577 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,853 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Turing Talk (2005).
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Eckert–Mauchly Award (2004).
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In a talk at the Computer History Museum and also in a 2010 interview in Wired magazine, Brooks was asked "What do you consider your greatest technological achievement
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Turing Award (1999).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (1996).
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award (1994).
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Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
Won IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1993).
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of ETH Zürich (1991).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1989).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Distinguished Service Award (1987).
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1985· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1985).
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1983· 1 entry
Published “<scp>CHARMM</scp> : A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations” in Journal of Computational Chemistry — cited 13,597 times.
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1976· 1 entry
Brooks was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to computer system design and the development of academic programs in computer sciences"
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1974).
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded W. Wallace McDowell Award (1970).
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1964· 1 entry
Brooks accepted an invitation to come to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and founded the university's computer science department, which he chaired for twenty years until 1984
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1956· 1 entry
Working in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Yorktown, New York
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1931· 2 entries
Born 1931-04-19.
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In Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, graduating in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, and he received a Ph
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