Fred Brooks
American software engineer and computer scientistWikipedia
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Sep 25, 2026
Mack PaulGUEST
And then just a few weeks later, IBM made the announcement.
Mack PaulGUEST
What, you know, the book uncovers through some really interesting interviews with a guy named Fred Brooks.
Mack PaulGUEST
Fred is from eastern North Carolina, but he ends up going to Duke and then Harvard and applied mathematics.
Mack PaulGUEST
It really is.
Mack PaulGUEST
So he had one team looking at the implementation of the System 360.
Mack PaulGUEST
There was another team doing the same.
Mack PaulGUEST
And Fred Brooks' team ends up winning out on the way to build it and the architecture of this system.
Mack PaulGUEST
And He just happens to be from North Carolina and he goes he wants to go to UNC and leave IBM and start the first computer science department at UNC.
Mack PaulGUEST
And then just a few weeks later, IBM made the announcement.
Mack PaulGUEST
What, you know, the book uncovers through some really interesting interviews with a guy named Fred Brooks.
Mack PaulGUEST
Fred is from eastern North Carolina, but he ends up going to Duke and then Harvard and applied mathematics.
Mack PaulGUEST
It really is.
Mack PaulGUEST
So he had one team looking at the implementation of the system 360.
Mack PaulGUEST
There was another team doing the same.
Mack PaulGUEST
And Fred Brooks' team ends up winning out on the way to to build it in the architecture of this system.
Mack PaulGUEST
And he just happens to be from North Carolina.
Mack PaulGUEST
And so that, you know, was a big boon, and then just a few weeks later, IBM made the announcement.
Mack PaulGUEST
What, you know, uh, the book uncovers through some really interesting interviews with a guy named Fred Brooks.
Mack PaulGUEST
Fred is from Eastern North Carolina, but he, you know, ends up going to Duke and then Harvard and then applied mathematics.
Mack PaulGUEST
A brilliant, you know, scientist, engineer, and at, in, in his 30s he ends up leading the team.
Mack PaulGUEST
They would create, like, a lot of these competitive management structures.
Mack PaulGUEST
So he had one team looking at the implementation of the System 360, 60.
Mack PaulGUEST
There was another team doing the same, and Fred Brooks' team ends up winning out on the way to c- to build it and the architecture of this system.
Mack PaulGUEST
And he just happens to be from North Carolina, and he goes ...
Mack PaulGUEST
And so that, you know, was a big boon, and then just a few weeks later, IBM made the announcement.
Mack PaulGUEST
What, you know, the book uncovers through some really interesting interviews with a guy named Fred Brooks.
Mack PaulGUEST
Fred is from Eastern North Carolina, but he, you know, ends up going to Duke and then Harvard and applied mathematics.
Mack PaulGUEST
A brilliant, you know, scientist, engineer, and at, in, in his 30s he ends up leading the team.
Mack PaulGUEST
They would create, like, a lot of these competitive management structures.
Mack PaulGUEST
So he had one team looking at the implementation of the System 360-60.
Mack PaulGUEST
There was another team doing the same, and Fred Brooks' team ends up winning out on the way to c- to build it and the architecture of this system.
Mack PaulGUEST
And he just happens to be from North Carolina, and he goes, he wants to go to UNC and leave IBM and start the first computer science department at UNC.
Mack PaulGUEST
And then just a few weeks later, IBM made the announcement.
Mack PaulGUEST
What, you know, the book uncovers through some really interesting interviews with a guy named Fred Brooks.
Mack PaulGUEST
Fred is from eastern North Carolina, but he ends up going to Duke and then Harvard and applied mathematics.
Mack PaulGUEST
It's brilliant.
Mack PaulGUEST
So he had one team looking at the implementation of the system 360.
Mack PaulGUEST
There was another team doing the same.
Mack PaulGUEST
And Fred Brooks team ends up winning out on the way to success.
Mack PaulGUEST
to build it in the architecture of this system.
Mack PaulGUEST
And so that, you know, was a big boon, and then just a few weeks later IBM made the announcement.
Mack PaulGUEST
What, you know, the book uncovers through some really interesting interviews with a guy named Fred Brooks.
Mack PaulGUEST
Fred is from Eastern North Carolina, but he, you know, ends up going to Duke and then Harvard and a- applied mathematics.
Mack PaulGUEST
A brilliant, you know, scientist, engineer, and at, in, in his 30s he ends up leading the team.
Mack PaulGUEST
They would create, like, a lot of these competitive management structures.
Mack PaulGUEST
So he had one team looking at the implementation of the System 360, 60.
Mack PaulGUEST
There was another team doing the same, and Fred Brooks' team ends up winning out on the way to You could, to build it in the architecture of this system.
Mack PaulGUEST
And he just happens to be from North Carolina, and he goes, he wants to go to UNC and leave IBM and start the first computer science department at UNC.
Mack PaulGUEST
IBM was looking for a place to construct or fabricate the System 360, which was a really revolutionary computer system that they created it in the early '60s.
Mack PaulGUEST
And one of the lead engineers happened to be from North Carolina, a guy named Fred Brooks.
Mack PaulGUEST
That really showed that RTP gave validity to the whole concept.
Mack PaulGUEST
Because up until then, we had attracted [laughs] one company in the first five years, Chemstrand.
Bruce MomjianGUEST
That's kind of my point.
Bruce MomjianGUEST
Another cool thing, this is from Frederick Brooks, Mythical Man Month.
Bruce MomjianGUEST
Software is really unique in its ability to attract people.
Bruce MomjianGUEST
It's not like building an airplane or building a product or building a car or something physical.