# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-brooks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:21:22.391Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-brooks"
name: "Fred Brooks"
slug: "fred-brooks"
description: "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."
tagline: "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"
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birthDate: "1931-04-19"
deathDate: "2022-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump