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Fred Brooks

American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering

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American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering

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Affiliations retain their dates and sources. Roles may be historical; a missing end date does not establish a current role. Machine classifications need review; a co-mention alone does not establish a relationship.

  1. Fred Brooks→IBM

    Works or worked for

    employed by1956–1965Wikidata statement
  2. Fred Brooks→National Academy of Engineering

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    member ofDates not recordedWikidata statement
  3. Fred Brooks→National Academy of Sciences

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  4. Fred Brooks→Harvard University

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    educated atDates not recordedWikidata statement
  5. Fred Brooks→Duke University

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    educated atDates not recordedWikidata statement
  6. Fred Brooks→American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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    member ofDates not recordedWikidata statement
  7. Fred Brooks→Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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    educated atDates not recordedWikidata statement
  8. Fred Brooks→University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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    employed byFrom 1965 · end not recordedWikidata statement
  9. Fred Brooks→Association for Computing Machinery

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    member ofFrom 1994 · end not recordedWikidata statement
  10. Fred Brooks→Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

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    member ofDates not recordedWikidata statement
  11. Steve Ballmer↔Fred Brooks

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  12. Robert Metcalfe↔Fred Brooks

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  13. Mike Wallace↔Fred Brooks

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    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  14. Fred Brooks↔Stephen Elop

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  15. Jan Koum↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  16. George Orwell↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

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  17. Ken Thompson↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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  18. Elon Musk↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

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  19. Ray Eames↔Fred Brooks

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  20. Claude Shannon↔Fred Brooks

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  21. Peter Norvig↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  22. Charles Geschke↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  23. Tim Berners-Lee↔Fred Brooks

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  24. John Warnock↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  25. Fred Brooks↔James Gosling

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  26. Rob Enderle↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  27. Fred Brooks↔Charles P. Thacker

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  28. Steve Wozniak↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  29. Bill Gates↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  30. David Pogue↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  31. Lynn Conway↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

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  32. Marissa Mayer↔Fred Brooks

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  33. Fred Brooks↔Seymour Cray

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  34. Patrick Collison↔Fred Brooks

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    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

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  35. Regina E. Dugan↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

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  36. J. Presper Eckert↔Fred Brooks

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  37. Peter Thiel↔Fred Brooks

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  38. Sergey Brin↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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  39. Karen Spärck Jones↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

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  40. Steve Jobs↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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  41. Cory Doctorow↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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  42. Fred Brooks↔Robert Taylor

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  43. John Forbes Nash↔Fred Brooks

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    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  44. Raymond Kurzweil↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  45. Tom Brokaw↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  46. Fred Brooks↔Douglas Engelbart

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  47. Dennis Ritchie↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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  48. Charlie Rose↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

  49. Paul Graham↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

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  50. Shel Kaphan↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

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