Biography
Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) 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 . [ 3 ] In 1976, Brooks was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to computer system design and the development of academic programs in computer sciences". [ 4 ] Brooks received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the 1999 ACM Turing Award . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Fields: Computer science, Operating systems, Software engineering Education: Duke University BS Harvard University MS PhD Award Citation: IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1993) ACM Fellow (1994) Turing Award (1999) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2001) Turing Lecture (2005)
About the Turing Award
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."
Quick Facts
- Award: ACM A.M. Turing Award
- Added: 2026-02-07
- Source: Wikipedia
- Prize: $1,000,000 (USD)
- Presented by: ACM
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Notable Winners
- Donald Knuth (1974)
- Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
- Geoffrey Hinton (2018)
- Yoshua Bengio (2018)
- Yann LeCun (2018)