Fred Brooks

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Fred Brooks is affiliated with the following schools: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, Harvard University

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#10

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#10

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#185

World Rank

#191

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#93

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Bachelors Physics Duke University

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According to Wikipedia, Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. was an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about those experiences in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

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Fred Brooks's Published Works

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No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1987) (3673)
Bending and buckling of carbon nanotubes under large strain (1997) (1345)
The mythical man-month - essays on software engineering (2. ed.) (1995) (994)
Walking > walking-in-place > flying, in virtual environments (1999) (951)
What's Real About Virtual Reality? (1999) (806)
Moving objects in space: exploiting proprioception in virtual-environment interaction (1997) (795)
Physiological measures of presence in stressful virtual environments (2002) (624)
Simplification envelopes (1996) (603)
Feeling and seeing: issues in force display (1990) (550)
Project GROPEHaptic displays for scientific visualization (1990) (508)
Towards image realism with interactive update rates in complex virtual building environments (1990) (479)
Nanometre-scale rolling and sliding of carbon nanotubes (1999) (437)
Passive haptics significantly enhances virtual environments (2001) (355)
The computer scientist as toolsmith II (1996) (302)
Walkthrough—a dynamic graphics system for simulating virtual buildings (1987) (292)
Effect of latency on presence in stressful virtual environments (2003) (279)
The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist (2010) (258)
Fast spheres, shadows, textures, transparencies, and imgage enhancements in pixel-planes (1985) (216)
Architecture of the IBM System/360 (1964) (206)
MMR: an interactive massive model rendering system using geometric and image-based acceleration (1999) (203)
The nanomanipulator: a virtual-reality interface for a scanning tunneling microscope (1993) (185)
Effects of field of view on performance with head-mounted displays (2000) (183)
Computing smooth molecular surfaces (1994) (166)
Review of Four Studies on the Use of Physiological Reaction as a Measure of Presence in StressfulVirtual Environments (2005) (161)
Increasing update rates in the building walkthrough system with automatic model-space subdivision and potentially visible set calculations (1990) (136)
Using a manipulator for force display in molecular docking (1988) (123)
GUD WIP: Gait-Understanding-Driven Walking-In-Place (2010) (123)
Project GROPE-HapticDisplays for Scientific Visualization (1990) (121)
The hand is slower than the eye: a quantitative exploration of visual dominance over proprioception (2005) (116)
Manipulation of individual viruses: friction and mechanical properties. (1997) (113)
Computer architecture - concepts and evolution (1997) (113)
Comparing VE locomotion interfaces (2005) (107)
An experiment in musical composition (1957) (103)
Physiological Reaction as an Objective Measure of Presence in Virtual Environments (2001) (103)
Exploring Virtual Worlds With Head-Mounted Displays (1989) (102)
Three great challenges for half-century-old computer science (2003) (101)
The mythical man-month" essays on software engineering, addison-wesley (1974) (98)
Force display performs better than visual display in a simple 6-D docking task (1989) (98)
Linearly Scalable Computation of Smooth Molecular Surfaces (1997) (95)
Effects of Handling Real Objects and Self-Avatar Fidelity on Cognitive Task Performance and Sense of Presence in Virtual Environments (2003) (91)
Use of Visual and Proprioceptive Feedback to Improve Gait Speed and Spatiotemporal Symmetry Following Chronic Stroke: A Case Series (2012) (81)
Redirected touching: The effect of warping space on task performance (2012) (79)
The Integrated Virtual Environment Rehabilitation Treadmill System (2011) (78)
A Psychophysical Experiment Regarding Components of the Plausibility Illusion (2017) (74)
Force display in molecular docking (1990) (70)
Physiological Measures of Presence in Virtual Environments (2001) (64)
The Hand Is More Easily Fooled than the Eye: Users Are More Sensitive to Visual Interpenetration than to Visual-Proprioceptive Discrepancy (2006) (63)
GROPE-1: A Computer Display to the Sense of Feel (1971) (63)
Designing and Building the PIT: a Head-Tracked Stereo Workspace for Two Users (1998) (57)
Investigation and modification of molecular structures with the nanoManipulator. (1999) (57)
The Computer "Scientist" as Toolsmith-Studies in Interactive Computer Graphics (1977) (55)
The Structure of SYSTEM/360 Part I: Outline of the Logical Structure (1964) (54)
The Mythical Man-Month: After 20 years (1995) (52)
Quantitative manipulation of DNA and viruses with the nanomanipulator scanning force microscope (1999) (50)
Effects of handling real objects and avatar fidelity on cognitive task performance in virtual environments (2003) (50)
"No silver bullet" reloaded: retrospective on "essence and accidents of software engineering" (2007) (49)
Redirected Touching: Training and adaptation in warped virtual spaces (2013) (49)
Automatic Data Processing (1963) (44)
A Framework for the Real-Time Walkthrough of Massive Models (1998) (43)
VIEW: an exploratory molecular visualization system with user-definable interaction sequences (1993) (39)
Fast analytical computation of Richard's smooth molecular surface (1993) (38)
Pearls found on the way to the ideal interface for scanned probe microscopes (1997) (33)
Multivariate data visualization with data-driven spots (2003) (32)
Defining, computing, and visualizing molecular interfaces (1995) (30)
Six Generations of Building Walkthrough: Final Technical Report to the National Science Foundation (1992) (29)
Immersion and coherence in a stressful virtual environment (2018) (28)
Matching actual treadmill walking speed and visually perceived walking speed in a projection virtual environment (2010) (26)
MACBETH: Management of Avatar Conflict by Employment of a Technique Hybrid (2007) (24)
Incorporating dynamic real objects into immersive virtual environments (2003) (24)
Report of the defense science board task force on military software (1987) (22)
Developments in the Logical Organization of Computer Arithmetic and Control Units (1961) (20)
Immersion and Coherence: Research Agenda and Early Results (2020) (19)
Processing Data in Bits and Pieces (1959) (16)
Scene-motion thresholds during head yaw for immersive virtual environments (2012) (16)
Perceptual sensitivity to visual/kinesthetic discrepancy in hand speed, and why we might care (2006) (14)
A Course of Study in Computer Hardware Architecture (1975) (14)
Generating Levels of Detail for Large-Scale Polygonal Models (1995) (14)
Real-walking models improve walking-in-place systems (2010) (14)
Is There Any Real Virtue in Virtual Reality (1994) (13)
Decision making with computer graphics in an inventory control environment (1970) (12)
Design of a Methodology to Support Software Release Decisions: Do the Numbers Really Matter? (2006) (11)
MACBETH: The avatar which I see before me and its movement toward my hand (2007) (11)
Interacting with dynamic real objects in virtual environments (2002) (10)
Virtual Reality In Education: Promise And Reality (Panel). (1998) (10)
Research frontiers in virtual reality (1994) (10)
Recent Developments in Computer Organization (1963) (10)
The Nanomanipulator: a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (1993) (9)
An initial exploration of conversational errors as a novel method for evaluating virtual human experiences (2011) (9)
Superposition rendering: increased realism for interactive walkthroughs (1999) (9)
Organizational, financial and political aspects of a three-university computing center (1968) (8)
Specification and Design (1999) (8)
Impressions by a dinosaur - summary of Faraday discussion 169: molecular simulations and visualization. (2014) (8)
Processor Products-Final Report of the SPREAD Task Group, December 28, 1961 (1983) (7)
The teacher's job is to design learning experiences; not primarily to impart information (2012) (6)
Immersion and coherence in a visual cliff environment (2017) (6)
SRC Contract 82-11-003 Transfer of Software Methodology to VLSI Design (1984) (6)
The execute operations—a fourth mode of instruction sequencing (1960) (5)
Porta-simd: an optimally portable simd programming language (1990) (5)
Visualization and Natural Control Systems for Microscopy (2005) (4)
Reliable forward walking parameters from head-track data alone (2012) (4)
Physiological reaction and presence in stressful virtual environments (2002) (4)
Simpliication Envelopes (2007) (3)
Introducing computing to smaller colleges and universities—a progress report (1969) (3)
Computer structures: past, present and future (abstract) (1971) (3)
Automatic data processing : system/360 edition (1969) (3)
Coherence changes gaze behavior in virtual human interactions (2017) (3)
Interactive visualization of weighted three-dimensional alpha hulls (1994) (3)
Retrospectives on Peopleware (2007) (2)
Exploring Virtual Worlds with Head-Mounted Displays TR 89-009 February 1989 (2)
Keynote address: language design as design (1996) (2)
Collaboration and telecollaboration in design (2007) (2)
Advanced Technology for Portable Personal Visualization (1991) (2)
Estimating the Number of Unit Spheres Inside a Larger Sphere TR 93-039 May 1994 (2008) (2)
Walkthrough-Exploring Virtual Worlds (1989) (2)
Management Problems of the Business Computer Installation (1956) (2)
Force and volume visualization methods for molecular studies (1990) (1)
Virtual reality at work (1991) (1)
Stretch-ing Is Great Exercise—It Gets You in Shape to Win (2010) (1)
Supercomputer hardware: an update of the 1983 report's summary and tables (1989) (1)
Computer-Man Communication: Using Graphics in the Instructional Process (1970) (1)
Discussion of the SPREAD Report, June 23, 1982 (1983) (1)
The IBM Operating System/360 (2002) (1)
Annual Progress Report (17th) and 1992-97 Renewal Proposal Interactive Graphics for Molecular Studies (1991) (0)
Management of Software Projects (2003) (0)
Virtual Environment Training for Dismounted Teams - Technical Challenges (2006) (0)
Stretch-ing Is Great Exercise— It Gets You in Shape to Win (2010) (0)
A computer for low context-switch time (1990) (0)
Making and Measuring Effective Virtual Environments (1997) (0)
Computer Architecture (2012) (0)
Architecture and Structure of Information Systems (1972) (0)
Essence and Accidents of Software li eermng (2006) (0)
Session 3A: Debate—software development paradigms (1984) (0)
M.j. Flynn, Shared Internal Resources in a Multiprocessor an Analytical Model for Obtaining Upper Bounds on the Performance of Event-driven, Hierarchical Multicomputer Systems R.s. Wilkov, Reliability Considerations in Computer Network Design G.g. Iazeoua, Walking .strategies for a Single-server, Mu (0)
Report on the lOth IFIP Congress (2010) (0)
Nanomanipulation for Material Properties, Substrate Interactions and Devices (1998) (0)
A Delight in Making Things Work (1998) (0)
A vision for visualization (1993) (0)
'A Science of Design' is a Misled and Misleading Goal (2008) (0)
VR@50: celebrating ivan sutherland's 1968 head-mounted 3D display system (2018) (0)
2 Business and Information Systems Engineering, Standard Business Software and IT Services (2012) (0)
Eleventh Annual Report Interactive Graphics for Molecular Graphics System (2010) (0)
Security Analysis of Accountable Anonymous Group Communication in Dissent Preliminary Draft - Not for Public Release (2010) (0)
Six Generations of Building Walkthroughs – (2010) (0)
Module 0 -preface Module 1 -lntroductiori And (0)
Caribbean Report 05-12-1990 (1990) (0)
Processing DatainBits andPieces (1959) (0)
Walkthrough - Exploring Virtual Worlds Second Annual Report (1989) (0)
Developments intheLogical Organization of Com- puterArithmetic andControl Units* (1961) (0)
Don ’ t Say the ‘ P ’ Word (2010) (0)
The Computer Graphics Metafile : L.R. Henderson and A.M. Mumford Butterworths, London, 1990, 409pp., $65.00 (1992) (0)
AFM Manipulation of Viruses: Substrate Interactions and Mechanical Properties (1996) (0)
Keynote Address: Making and Measuring Effective Virtual Environments (2005) (0)
Walkthrough Research Progress and Plan Update Rate Interface (0)
1959 Brooks , Blaauw , and Buchholz : Processing Data in Bits and Pieces 119 INDEX (0)
The Infrastructure of Command Information Systems (1991) (0)
Eighteenth Annual Progress Report: Interactive Graphics for Molecular Studies (1992) (0)
T. Grier Miller, M.D. 1886-1981. (1982) (0)
CHI ' 88 Grasping Reality (1999) (0)
46 Visualization and Natural Control Systems for Microscopy (2004) (0)
XIV – APL Session (1981) (0)
Incorporating dynamic real objects into immersive virtual environments (2003) (0)

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