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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mstdn.social/users/mkapor/statuses/109366125148372596">Mitch Kapor (mkapor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 18:22:38 JST</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/@mkapor" title="mkapor@mstdn.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/115933-48-20230501090401.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Mitch Kapor" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Mitch Kapor</a></section><article><p>Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man Month, has died at the age of 91.  This classic was my introduction to managing complex software projects.  Its   many insights and lessons still apply today. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/1423581#notice-2906520">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-05-01T18:22:38+09:00" title="Monday, 01-May-2023 18:22:38 JST">Monday, 01-May-2023 18:22:38 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@mkapor/109366125148372596" rel="external" title="Sent from mstdn.social via ActivityPub">mstdn.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@mkapor/109366125148372596">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks">Fred Brooks</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was an American computer architect, 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.In 1976, Brooks was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to computer system design and the development of academic programs in computer sciences".Brooks received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.
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Born on April 19, 1931, in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, graduating in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, and he received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics (computer science) from Harvard University in 1956, supervised by Howard Aiken.Brooks served as the graduate teaching assistant for Ken Iverson at Harvard's graduate program in "automatic data processing...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Mitch Kapor (mkapor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 18:22:38 JST Mitch Kapor
Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man Month, has died at the age of 91. This classic was my introduction to managing complex software projects. Its many insights and lessons still apply today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks
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  Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was an American computer architect, 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.In 1976, Brooks was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to computer system design and the development of academic programs in computer sciences".Brooks received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999. Education Born on April 19, 1931, in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, graduating in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, and he received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics (computer science) from Harvard University in 1956, supervised by Howard Aiken.Brooks served as the graduate teaching assistant for Ken Iverson at Harvard's graduate program in "automatic data processing...

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