Frederick P. Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931 in Durham , North Carolina , USA ) is an American computer scientist . Brooks became known first as the person responsible for the development of the OS / 360 at IBM and later for the honest description of the development process in his book The Mythical Man-Month ( German Vom Mythos des Mann -mont : Essays on Software Engineering ). This book also contains a much-cited statement known as Brooks' Law :
"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
"The use of additional manpower for software projects that have already been delayed only delays them further."
Life
Brooks studied at Duke University in his native city and received his PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1956 under Howard Aiken as a PhD supervisor . He then found employment with IBM in Poughkeepsie and Yorktown , New York . He first worked on the architecture of the Stretch , a $ 10 million scientific supercomputer for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory , then on the Harvest computer. He then led the development of the System / 360 family of computers and the OS / 360 operating system . The OS / 360 project ran from 1963 to 1966 with a scope of approximately 5000 person -years , which makes Brooks an expert at organizing large and extensive projects in a targeted manner.
In 1965 Brooks left IBM to build the computer science department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He headed it for more than 20 years. In 1996 Brooks received the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science . In 1999 he received the Turing Award from the ACM computer science association . In 1970 he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award and in 2004 the Eckert-Mauchly Award . Since 1991 he has been a Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . In 1976 he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2001 to the National Academy of Sciences .
Works
- with Kenneth E. Iverson Automatic Data Processing , New York: Wiley, 1963
- with Kenneth E. Iverson Automatic Data Processing, System / 360 Edition , New York: Wiley, 1969
- with Gerrit Blaauw Computer architecture: concepts and evolution , Addison-Wesley, 1997
- No silver bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1987) (Retrieved April 14, 2014)
- From the Myth of the Man Month : Essays on Software Engineering. - Bonn: mitp, 2003. - ISBN 3-8266-1355-4
- Frederick P. Brooks: The Design of Design . Essays from a Computer Scientist. Ed .: Pearson Education, Inc. Addison-Wesley, 2010, ISBN 978-0-201-36298-5 (English, foreword & Chapter 6 [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
- Frederick P. Brooks: Successful Design . Essays on universal design processes with examples from IT and software development. mitp-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8266-9080-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Frederick P. Brooks in the catalog of the German National Library
- Videos by and about Frederick P. Brooks in the AV Portal of the Technical Information Library
- Fred Brooks website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frederick P. Brooks: On the Myth of the Man Month . Essays on software engineering. Addison-Wesley, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-925118-09-8 (English: The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering .).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Brooks, Frederick P. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brooks Jr., Frederick Philipps |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Durham , North Carolina , USA |