Awards & Winners

Fred Brooks

Date of Birth 19-April-1931
Place of Birth Durham
(North Carolina, United States of America, Wake County, Durham County, Area codes 919 and 984, Area code 919, Area code 984)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Frederick P. Brooks, Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr., Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Profession Mathematician, Computer Scientist, Software Engineer
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. is a 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.

Awards by Fred Brooks

Check all the awards nominated and won by Fred Brooks.

1999


Turing Award
(For landmark contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering.)

1985


National Medal of Technology and Innovation
(For their contributions to the development of the hardware, architecture and systems engineering associated with the IBM System/360, a computer system and technologies which revolutionized the data processing industry and which helped to make the United States dominant in computer technology for many years.)