Fred Brooks
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. (1931–2022) was an American computer scientist and the founding chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a position he held for two decades before retiring in 2015. He is best known for directing the development of IBM's System/360 computer family and its operating system in the 1960s, and for his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month, which introduced Brooks's Law — the observation that adding engineers to a late software project makes it later. He received the ACM Turing Award in 1999 for his contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering.
“It used to be very well known that you cannot throw money at the problem... That's no longer true. You can throw money at the problem. If you have enough money and some good data, you can buy enough GPUs and solve basically anything in software.”
Source→“Fred Brooks called it the mythical man month and every engineering leader believed it. That rule no longer holds.”
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