ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., is Kenan Professor of Computer Science

at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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 Erich Bloch were awarded the

National Medal of Technology in 1985. Earlier, he was an archi-

tect of the IBM Stretch and Harvest computers.