It included several models of differing cost and capabilities. These embraced a full circle of computer applications, from business data processing to sophisticated science and engineering; hence the ...

In the book of corporate folklore, former IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr. deserves a special spot. Specifically, the massive gamble he took in 1964 to introduce the System/360, which had the potential ...

Dr. Brooks managed the development of IBM’s System/360 family of compatible mainframe computers and then the software system that went with them during the 1960s.

Fred Brooks Jr. obituary for software engineer who helped create IBM’s System/360. Tribute to founder of UNC computer science department, author of Mythical Man-Month book.

The computer scientist Frederick P. Brooks Jr. in 2014 with a first-generation Apple Macintosh computer. Dr. Brooks, a technical leader at IBM in the 1960s, admired the design of the Mac, which he ...