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".
10 Facts About Fred Brooks
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Fred Brooks received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.
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Fred Brooks served as the graduate teaching assistant for Ken Iverson at Harvard's graduate program in "automatic data processing", the first such program in the world.
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Fred Brooks joined IBM in 1956, working in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Yorktown, New York.
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Fred Brooks worked on the architecture of the IBM 7030 Stretch, a $10 million scientific supercomputer of which nine were sold, and the IBM 7950 Harvest computer for the National Security Agency.
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In 1964, Fred Brooks accepted an invitation to come to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and founded the University's computer science department.
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Fred Brooks served on a number of US national boards and committees, including:.
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Fred Brooks was an evangelical Christian who was active with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.
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Fred Brooks named his eldest son after Kenneth E Iverson.
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Fred Brooks had been in poor health following a stroke.