Author

Books by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr. (1931–2022) was an American computer scientist who managed the development of IBM's OS/360, one of the most ambitious software projects of the 1960s, before joining the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he founded the computer science department and spent most of his academic career. He received the Turing Award in 1999 for his contributions to computer architecture and software engineering management. The Mythical Man-Month was first published in 1975 and expanded with the essay "No Silver Bullet" in a twentieth-anniversary edition in 1995. His later books include The Design of Design (2010).