Frederick Phillips Brooks

Professor Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. is the Kenan Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1964 he founded the Computer Science Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chaired it for 20 years. His active current interest is virtual reality, as currently most commonly defined. Not "second worlds". His team has researched methods of measuring and enhancing the presence illusion.  They have worked on scientific visualization and education and training applications, rather than entertainment. Since 1965, computer graphics generally has been my research area, originally molecular graphics. From 1956, his interests have been first, computer architecture, then software engineering. Brooks has served on the National Science Board and the Defense Science Board. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the IEEE Computer Society’s McDowell and Computer Pioneer Awards, the ACM Allen Newell and Distinguished Service Awards, the AFIPS Harry Goode Award, the Eckert-Mauchly Award, and an honorary Doctor of Technical Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zürich).