# 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.

*American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/fred-brooks

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1931-04-19
- **Died:** 2022-11-17
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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## Platforms
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/

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