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	frederick p. brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brooks joined IBM in 1956, working in Poughkeepsie and Yorktown, New York.
		Brooks later wrote of the development process for OS/360 in The Mythical Man-Month.
		In 1965, Brooks left IBM to found the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chaired it for 20 years.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Frederick_P._Brooks.html (252 words)

	1995 Bower Awards Press Release
		Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., Kenan professor and founder of the computer science department at the University of North Carolina, is being recognized for his role in developing the IBM System/360 computer family.
		Brooks, who coined the term computer architecture, was the leader of the team that in 1964 introduced an innovative "third-generation" computer system which established the idea that hardware and software design could proceed independently, yet retain compatibility across a family of computers.
		Brooks will also receive this prestigious award, which includes a cash prize of $250,000, for his early recognition that the computer could be more than number cruncher, that it could be used for word processing, graphical display and scientific visualization.
	sln.fi.edu /inquirer/bower95.html (805 words)

	Faculty Biography: Frederick P. Brooks Jr. (UNC-CH Computer Science)
		Brooks joined IBM Corporation, working in Poughkeepsie and Yorktown, New York, from 1956 to 1965.
		Brooks distilled the successes and failures of the development of Operating System/360 in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays in Software Engineering,(1975; enlarged Anniversary Edition, 1995).
		Brooks served on the National Science Board and the Defense Science Board.
	www.cs.unc.edu /People/Faculty/Bios/brooks.html (359 words)

	Frederick P. Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brooks joined IBM in 1956, workingin Poughkeepsie and Yorktown, New York.
		He worked on the architecture of the Stretch (a $10m scientific supercomputer for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory)and Harvest computers and then was manager for thedevelopment of the System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software they ran.
		In 1965, Brooks left IBM to found the Department of Computer Science at the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill and chaired it for 20 years.
	www.therfcc.org /frederick-p.-brooks-220424.html (232 words)

	The 1995 Bower Award and Prize in Science - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
		In 1964, Brooks decided to return to his home state to establish a computer science department, only the second one in the country, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
		With Stanford's Dean of Engineering, Frederick Terman as his guide, Brooks chose two areas--computer graphics software and natural language processing--as the "peaks of excellence" the UNC computer science department would pursue.
		In 1985, Brooks became one of the first people to receive the National Medal of Technology presented by the President of the United States.
	sln.fi.edu /inquirer/brooks.html (737 words)

	Fred Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999.
		It was in The Mythical Man-Month that Brooks made the now-famous statement: "Adding people to a late software project makes it later." This has since come to be known as "Brooke's Law." In addition to The Mythical Man-Month, Brooks is known for No Silver Bullet, an essay on software engineering.
		As of 2004 he was still engaged in active research there, primarily in virtual worlds and molecular graphics.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_P._Brooks (325 words)

	News Department of Computer Science at LSU
		Dr. Brooks has received the National Medal of Technology, the Bower Award and Prize of the Franklin Institute, the John von Neumann Medal of the IEEE, and the Allen Newell, Turing, and Distinguished Service awards of the ACM.
		Brooks is the first recipient of the prestigious ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award, which is presented annually to an individual selected for career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science and other disciplines.
		Brooks was honored for a breadth of career contributions within computer science and engineering and for his interdisciplinary contributions to visualization methods for biochemistry.
	bit.csc.lsu.edu /news/brooks.html (581 words)

	Frederick P. Brooks - netlexikon
		Brooks begann danach bei IBM in Poughkeepsie und Yorktown, New York.
		Brooks beschrieb den Entwicklungsprozess der OS/360 detailliert in The Mythical Man-Month, und stellte später in No Silver Bullet fest, dass es kein Wundermittel in der Software-Entwicklung gibt.
		Brooks verließ IBM in 1965 um den Informatik-Fachbereich an der University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill aufzubauen.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Frederick-P.-Brooks.html (330 words)

	The Mythical Man-Month by Freder
		Brook also managed the development of the IBM 360 Operating System." Note that while manager of the 360 project it was Dr. Brooks who specified that a byte would consist of 8 bits.
		Brooks' writing style is fairly dry and formal — seemingly the prose comes to the reader from the time of Arthur Conan Doyle rather than from the time of the Rolling Stones — and this serves to intensify the perception of antiquity.
		Brooks, though, had to play the ball where it lay at the time he was writing and so would not have seen some possibilities we enjoy today as being legitimate or responsible then.
	www.softpanorama.org /Bookshelf/Classic/tmmm.shtml (11663 words)

	No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
		Briefly, Brooks argues that software disappoints because it is so different from tangible goods, being made of bits not atoms, that the solutions that make tangible goods meet our expectations cannot possibly apply.
		Frederick P. Brooks is Kenan Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
		Brooks received his Ph.D. fin what is today computer science) from Harvard, where he was a student of Howard Aiken.
	virtualschool.edu /mon/SoftwareEngineering/BrooksNoSilverBullet.html (6137 words)

	DVD Booty - Brooks Jr. Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		J. William Brooks, Jr., age 44, is President and Chief Operating Officer of EDMC.
		Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., is Kenan Professor of Computer Science at the Uni...
		Brooks, Jr., Frederick P. Author of "No Silver Bullet", one of the classics of Software Engineering....
	www.dvdbooty.com /stars/brooks-jr (63 words)

	Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brooks, VIEW - visualizations impromptu evaluations workbench, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 6 (4) (1998) pp.
		Brooks, Force display in molecular docking, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 6 (4) (1998) pp.
		Bruce P. Gaber, William R. Light, Ronald M. Brown, Molecular graphics of lipid structures, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 6 (4) (1998) pp.
	www.elsevier.com /cdweb/journals/02637855/viewer.htt?viewtype=authors (605 words)

	Alibris: P Brooks
		Paul Brooks, who was Carson's editor for many years, has selected excerpts from her works (Under the Sea-Wind, 1941; The Sea Around Us, 1951; The Edge of the Sea, 1955;...
		Mel Brooks is dazzling them on Broadway with the hottest ticket in town.
		Brooks tells how he and his colibrettist, Tom Meehan, took the 1968 Academy Award-winning movie from a script with only two songs to a full...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Brooks,P (1160 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brooks was originally writing from his experiences as project manager for IBM's System/360, and later with OS/360.
		Brooks shows very clearly how work can, and cannot, be partitioned in chapter two.
		Chapter sixteen is Brooks' "No Silver Bullet" paper, wherein he opined (in 1986) that programming was an inherently complex and difficult task, and that no development in the next ten years would provide a productivity increase on the level of an order of magnitude.
	sun.soci.niu.edu /~rslade/bkmymamo.rvw (627 words)

	Addison-Wesley - Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
		Frederick P. Brooks, The University of North Carolina
		Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., was born in 1931 in Durham, NC.
		Dr. Brooks and Dura Sweeney in 1957 patented a Stretch interrupt system for the IBM Stretch computer that introduced most features of today's interrupt systems.
	www.cs.utk.edu /cs594ipm/cgi-bin/group11/crawl_collection/awl/books/0,2627,0201835959,00.html (1228 words)

	ERCB: The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition
		Brooks observed, while he was managing the development of Operating System/360 (OS/360) in the early 1960's, that man-months are not -- so to speak -- factorable, associative, or commutative.
		And although Brooks comes across as a direct and rather unpretentious fellow, I can imagine that he must have been inspiring and challenging to work for -- his powers of observation, willingness to learn from mistakes, and ability to see through to the deeper issues are remarkable.
		Brooks, Frederick P.: "The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II," Communications of the ACM, 39(3):61, March, 1996.
	www.ercb.com /feature/feature.0001.html (1224 words)

	ELX.com.au (Australia) - The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P Brooks, Jr. - ISBN 0201835959 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brooks and Dura Sweeney in 1957 patented a Stretch interrupt system for the IBM Stretch computer that introduced most features of today's interrupt systems.
		Brooks distilled the successes and failures of the development of Operating System/360 in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays in Software Engineering, (1975).
		Brooks has served on the National Science Board and the Defense Science Board.
	www.everythinglinux.com.au /item/AW5959?elx=b5e7d4cb575a29b047b3044f65544016 (533 words)

	Musings on Frederick P. Brooks Jr.'s "The Mythical Man-Month" (TNPC 2.21.05)
		Musings on Frederick P. Brooks Jr.'s "The Mythical Man-Month" (TNPC 2.21.05)
		Musings on Frederick P. Brooks Jr.'s The Mythical Man-Month
		Brooks writes, "Since software construction is inherently a systems effort -- an exercise in complex interrelationships -- communication effort is great, and it quickly dominates the decrease in individual task time brought about by partitioning.
	www.thenakedpc.com /articles/v02/21/0221-05.html (855 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| Microsoft's mythical man-years
		Brooks was an IBM veteran who'd watched Big Blue's mainframe software projects spiral out of control in the 1960s.
		Brooks argued that, with most common large-scale software projects, adding manpower to a team results in further delays, as veterans stop to introduce newcomers to the complexities and challenges of the project, and as managers step back to divide up the work afresh.
		Brooks concluded, "The man-month as a unit for measuring the size of a job is a dangerous and deceptive myth."
	www.salon.com /tech/col/rose/2002/04/12/microsoft_man_months (666 words)

	The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
		The problem with software project management back in the 70's was that most managers were educated in the fields of economics rather than computing, and many of the theories they were familiar with were simply not applicable to software projects.
		Brooks' work is simply a must to anyone who considers a profession in the software business, and doubly-so for would-be managers in this field.
		In this paper, Brooks speculated that no technology will be found, within ten years of its publication (in 1986), which will enhance the process of software development by an order of magnitude.
	www.forum2.org /tal/books/mythman.html (800 words)

	Frederick P. Brooks
		Educated at Duke University, graduating in 1953, and he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1956.
		Brooks joined IBM in 1956, working in Poughkeepsie[?] and Yorktown, New York State.
		Brooks later wrote of the development process for OS/360 in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays in Software Engineering,(1975).
	www.fastload.org /fr/Frederick_P._Brooks.html (156 words)

	Ian Alexander's Reviews of Books on Requirements Engineering and Related Subjects - Brooks on Mythical Man-Month
		I suppose there are millions of engineers around the world who would know instantly which book was being referred to if someone mentioned a tar-pit or a surgical team, and who still shudder at the thought of making a $200M mistake.
		Brooks' theme is large and simple: developing complex systems is not like developing small ones.
		Brooks writes engagingly on these themes, and so beautifully described are his examples, and so honestly admitted are his own and his team's failings, that despite the passing of the years, much of what he has to say still sounds fresh today.
	i.f.alexander.users.btopenworld.com /reviews/brooks.htm (764 words)

	Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Frederick P. Brooks, the father of IBM's OS/360 and the author of The Mythical Man-Month.
		Mel Brooks, a producer, writer, and director of farces and parodies in which he occasionally acts.
		Brooks Hatlen was a character in Steven King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and the related movie The Shawshank Redemption (where the character was played by James Whitmore).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Brooks.htm (204 words)

	Powell's Books - Mythical Man Month Essays on Softwar 2ND Edition by Frederick P Brooks
		The 20th anniversary edition of this classic collection of essays on software engineering and managing complex projects includes revised material, and new chapters condensing the author's original propositions and his views 20 years later, plus a reprint of his 1986 paper "No Silver Bullet," and his recent comments on that essay.
		Brooks' central argument is that large programming projects suffer different management problems from small ones due to the division of labor, and that conceptual integrity of the product is critical.
		Now 20 years after the publication of his book, Brooks revisits his original ideas and develops new thoughts and advice both for readers familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=4-0201835959-0 (411 words)

	Computer books at discount prices - nerdbooks.com
		With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects.
		These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system.
		Now, 20 years after the initial publication of his book, Brooks has revisited his original ideas and added new thoughts and advice, both for readers already familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time.
	www.nerdbooks.com /item.php?id=0201835959 (232 words)

	Computer History Museum - 2001 Fellow Award Recipient, Frederick P. Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brooks joined UNC in 1964, where he founded the Department of Computer Science and served as chairman for its first 20 years.
		His career work has been recognized with his acceptance of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, the Bower Science Award of the Franklin Institute, the John von Neumann Medal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the Allen Newell and Distinguished Service awards of the ACM.
		Brooks and his wife are faculty advisors for a graduate-student chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.
	www.computerhistory.org /events/hall_of_fellows/brooks/index.shtml (366 words)

	Computer History Museum - Lectures - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
		Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., is Kenan Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
		He was an architect of the IBM Stretch and Harvest computers.
		Dr. Brooks has received the National Medal of Technology, the A.M. Turing award of the ACM, the Bower Award and Prize of the Franklin Institute, and the John von Neumann Medal of the IEEE.
	www.computerhistory.org /events/lectures/ibms360_04072004/bios/Brooks.shtml (158 words)

	The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
		Fred Brooks describes his experiences and lessons from working on the IBM 360 project.
		Brooks cuts through the general technological optimism, as true today as it was then, and discusses the issues which really matter in software development.
	saloon.javaranch.com /49/000228.html (189 words)

	The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Following the lead of Harlan Mills, Brooks constructs an analogy between the roles necessary for a successful software engineering project, and the roles necessary for a surgical team.
		Brooks goes on to relate this observation to the need for conceptual integrity in the design of a software system, and makes observations on how this can be achieved.
		Author: Brooks, Frederick P. (Frederick Phillips) Title: The mythical man-month : essays on software engineering / Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
	www.weyrich.com /book_reviews/mythical_man.html (934 words)

	The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition
		Brooks needs to see "Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolfman" to update his knowledge.
		Brooks admits his advice "to throw one away" is wrong (p.265).
		Brooks' comments on "fluidity" (p.280) seems oriented to entertainment not production ("slide presentations") The coalescence of operating systems seems similar to automotive manufacturing (who remembers marque-specific engines?) Is "software engineering" an a priori fantasy?
	www.elipsiselectronics.com /0201835959/The_Mythical_Man-Month_Essays_on_Software_Engineering_20th__Anniversary_Edition.html (1552 words)

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