rob pikeFred Brooks, architect of the IBM/360 and its OS, author of The Mythical Man Month, and advocate for the 8-bit byte (enabling lower case letters!), passed away today.
Few in computing have influenced so many.
Michael K Johnson...and, he would certainly want to add, founder of the Computer Science department at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He devoted the majority of his life to teaching.
A couple of years ago, Dr. Brooks gave a 2-hour interview full of details from his life that I found fascinating to watch and listen to.