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In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. Life and career
Born in Durham North Carolina he attended Duke University graduating in 1953 and he received a Ph. ISBN 0-201-83595-9.

(born April 19 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks has received many awards including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.