https://cs.unc.edu/news-article/remembering-department-founder-dr-frederick-p-brooks-jr/
I was lucky enough to have spent a few hours with Dr. Brooks while helping
with an interview Catherine Lathwell did with him discussing KEI and APL in
2012.
Dr. Brooks was incredibly engaging and had a great
His "Mythical Man-Month" remains a classic.
On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 4:30 PM 'Kenneth Lettow' via Chat <
c...@jsoftware.com> wrote:
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> https://cs.unc.edu/news-article/remembering-department-founder-dr-frederick-p-brooks-jr/
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> I was lucky enough to have spent a few hours with Dr. Brooks while he
Yes it is.
After the interview he signed my copy of "the Mythical Man-Month", "the
Design of design" and his
chapter in I. Bernard Cohen's book "Makin' Numbers" which discussed Aiken's
comp lab at Harvard.
On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 6:21 PM Devon McCormick wrote:
> His "Mythical Man-Month" remain
I remember first hearing of Mandelbrot from Dr Brooks and also some insights
about the IBM/360 development. Dr Iverson was amused to find that I learned APL
from the IBM/360 manual by Iverson and Falkoff—it was all that was available at
my university in the early ‘70s about APL.
Fred Brooks sai
