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Fred Brooks

American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering1931 to 2022

Wikidata names Howard H. Aiken as doctoral advisor and lists 33 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata33

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 46 people: 46 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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