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Also Known As Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.
Born April 19, 1931 • Durham • North Carolina
Died November 17, 2022 (aged 91) • Chapel Hill • North Carolina
Awards And Honors Turing Award (1999) • Turing Award (1999)
Inventions interrupt signal
Subjects Of Study IBM OS/360 • computer • operating system • software • supercomputer • IBM 7030
Butler W. Lampson
computer scientist
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James Nicholas Gray
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Ritchie, Dennis M.
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