Description
Book SynopsisFrederick P. Brooks, Jr., was born in 1931 in Durham, NC. He received an A.B. summa cum laude in physics from Duke and a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard, under Howard Aiken, the inventor of the early Harvard computers.
At Chapel Hill, Dr. Brooks founded the Department of Computer Science and chaired it from 1964 through 1984. He has served on the National Science Board and the Defense Science Board. His current teaching and research is in computer architecture, molecular graphics, and virtual environments.
He joined IBM, working in Poughkeepsie and Yorktown, NY, 1956-1965. He is best known as the father of the IBM System/360, having served as project manager for its development and later as manager of the Operating System/360 software project during its design phase. For this work he, Bob Evans, and Erick Block were awarded and received a National Medal of Technology in 1985.
Table of Contents
1. The Tar Pit.
2. The Mythical Man-Month.
3. The Surgical Team.
4. Aristocracy, Democracy, and System Design.
5. The Second-System Effect.
6. Passing the Word.
7. Why Did the Tower of Babel Fail?
8. Calling the Shot.
9. Ten Pounds in a Five-Pound Sack.
10. The Documentary Hypothesis.
11. Plan to Throw One Away.
12. Sharp Tools.
13. The Whole and the Parts.
14. Hatching a Castrophe.
15. The Other Face.
16. No Silver Bullet -- Essence and Accident.
17. "No Silver Bullet" ReFired.
18. Propositions of The Mythical Man-Month: True or False?
19. The Mythical Man-Month After 20 Years.
Epilogue.
Notes and references.
Index. 0201835959T04062001
