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Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr. founded UNC's computer science department, the country's second free-standing doctorate-granting one, chaired it for two decades and led its research in interactive computer graphics and virtual environments, retiring in 2015 after 51 years. UNC named its second computer science building, built in 2008, for him.

Source: UNC Computer Science: Remembering Department Founder Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

1931–2022 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Frederick P. Brooks Jr., 2007
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., 2007

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  1. Frederick Brooks gives a guest lecture at UNC While working on IBM's System/360, Brooks visited UNC for an interview and a guest lecture, Ten Research Problems in Computer Science, which impressed the administration and led to the new department.Search the index · UNC Computer Science: Remembering Department Founder Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
  2. UNC founds its computer science department under Frederick Brooks Brooks, 33, founded what became the Department of Computer Science, the second free-standing doctorate-granting department of its kind in the United States; it was first called Information Science and took the name computer science in 1971.Search the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: UNC computer science department turns 60
  3. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. receives the National Medal of Technology Brooks, Bob Evans and Erich Bloch received the National Medal of Technology for the hardware, architecture and systems engineering of the IBM System/360. Brooks was then Kenan Professor and chairman of UNC's computer science department.Search the index · National Science and Technology Medals Foundation: Fred Brooks
  4. UNC opens a second computer science building named for Brooks UNC built a second computer science building beside Sitterson Hall and named it for Brooks, who was still working in the department; he kept his office in Sitterson Hall.Search the index · UNC Computer Science: Remembering Department Founder Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
  5. Frederick Brooks retires after 51 years at UNC Brooks, who had supervised more than 40 doctoral students and taught into his 80s, retired from the computer science department after 51 years at the university.Search the index · UNC Computer Science: Remembering Department Founder Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

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Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. papers, 1955-1990.

Brooks, Frederick P., Jr., 1931-2022 · 1955

Computing papers of Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (1931-2022), 1955 to 1990, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40492. The papers concern computer science, the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Triangle Universities Computation Center. The papers are in English.

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Picture: Frederick P. Brooks Jr., 2007. CC BY-SA 3.0. Photograph by Copyright owned by SD&M (www.sdm.de); Request for picture sent by email to Fred Brooks by uploader (Mark Pellegrini; user:Raul654) Fred sent this photo back, along with contact information for Carola Lauber at SD&M, who gave copyright permission.; via Wikimedia Commons

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