From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Fred Brooks died
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:42:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67054FFB-258B-48BA-AE2D-0B86002B7AD3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALQ0xCA17wkjsjhrvTPq=ukvKsBesBrcZ1s=pDE0casHhBV2vg@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Nov 28, 2022, at 4:39 AM, Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com> wrote:
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> In 1980 I applied to grad schools, including UNC. I had read "The Mythical Man-Month" by then, so I was floored one day sitting in my office when the phone rang and I heard, "This is Fred Brooks." I visited UNC where I saw the famous row of clocks that Steve Bellovin mentions in his memorial post.
The only direct interaction I ever had with him, alas, is that he politely declined to come address the Engineering Problem Solving class I was teaching at Duke's TIP one summer.
Adam
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-28 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-27 12:10 [TUHS] " John P. Linderman
2022-11-27 13:46 ` [TUHS] " Ron Natalie
2022-11-27 20:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-27 20:52 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-27 21:00 ` arnold
2022-11-28 11:39 ` Marc Donner
2022-11-28 16:42 ` Adam Thornton [this message]
2022-11-27 20:32 Norman Wilson
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