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Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., is Kenan Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is best known as the “father of the IBM System/360,” having served as project manager for its development and later as manager of the Operating System/360 software project during its design phase. For this work, he, Bob Evans, and Erich Bloch were awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1985. Earlier, he was an architect of the IBM Stretch and Harvest computers. He is a recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery’s A.M. Turing Award.

At Chapel Hill, Dr. Brooks founded ...

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