2022-11-25
My wife and I enjoyed spending time with Fred at the annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum. He was a kind and gentle mensch and enthusiastic about his work until his death. He will be missed sorely but remembered with gratitude for his major contributions to computing technology. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91
Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago. Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Remember...
2022-11-24
My wife and I enjoyed spending time with Fred at the annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum. He was a kind and gentle mensch and enthusiastic about his work until his death. He will be missed sorely but remembered with gratitude for his major contributions to computing technology. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91
He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM's dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic.
2022-01-19
Pleased to have been a member of the working group for the @royalsociety's upcoming report 'The Online Information Environment: Understanding how the internet shapes people's engagement with scientific information.' Join us for the launch event next week: https://royalsociety.org/...
Financial Times
The Royal Society finds social media sites banning misleading content is ineffective and can drive misinformation to “harder-to-address corners of the internet”
Risks of removing information rejected by the mainstream outweigh benefits, according to the Royal Society