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===Awards and honors=== In chronological order:<ref name="homepage"/> {{div col}} * Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1968) * [[W. Wallace McDowell Award]] for Outstanding Contribution to the Computer Art, IEEE Computer Group (1970) * Computer Sciences Distinguished Information Services Award, Information Technology Professionals (1970) * [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] for studies on computer architecture and human factors of computer systems, [[University of Cambridge]], England (1975) * Member, [[National Academy of Engineering]] (1976) * Fellow, [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1976) * Computer Pioneer Award, [[IEEE Computer Society]] (1982) * [[National Medal of Technology and Innovation]] (1985) * Thomas Jefferson Award, [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] (1986) * Distinguished Service Award, [[Association for Computing Machinery]] (1987) * Harry Goode Memorial Award, [[American Federation of Information Processing Societies]] (1989) * Foreign Member, [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1991)<ref>{{Cite web |title=F.P. Brooks |url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/3952 |access-date=July 17, 2015 |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |archive-date=July 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721042855/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/3952 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * Honorary Doctor of Technical Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich (1991) * [[IEEE John von Neumann Medal]], Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1993) * [[Fellow]] of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]] (1994)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/brooks_1002187|website=acm.org|title=Fred Brooks ACM awards}}</ref> * [[Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society]] (DFBCS) (1994) * International [[Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering]] (FREng), UK (1994) * [[Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science#SCS honors and awards|Allen Newell Award]], Association for Computing Machinery (1994)<ref name=brooks96>{{cite journal |last1=Brooks |first1=Frederick P. |year=1996 |title=The computer scientist as toolsmith II |journal=Communications of the ACM |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=61–68 |issn=0001-0782 |doi=10.1145/227234.227243 |s2cid=34572148 |quote=“The scientist builds in order to study; the engineer studies in order to build” |doi-access=free}}</ref> * [[Franklin Institute Awards|Bower Award and Prize in Science]], Franklin Institute (1995) * CyberEdge Journal Annual Sutherland Award (April 1997) * [[Turing Award]], Association for Computing Machinery (1999) * Member, [[National Academy of Sciences]] (2001) * Received the [[Computer History Museum]]'s Fellow Award, for his contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 30, 2015 |title=Frederick P. Brooks – CHM Fellow Award Winner |url=https://computerhistory.org/profile/frederick-p-brooks-jr/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250210180543/https://computerhistory.org/profile/frederick-p-brooks-jr/ |archive-date=February 10, 2025 |access-date=February 10, 2025 |publisher=Computerhistory.org}}</ref> (2001) * [[Eckert–Mauchly Award]], Association for Computing Machinery and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers–Computer Society (2004) * IEEE Virtual Reality Career Award (2010) <!-- * [[Order of the Golden Fleece]], University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ?????--> {{div col end}} In January 2005, he gave the [[Turing Talk|Turing Lecture]] on the subject of "Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design".<ref>{{cite web |title=Turing Lecture – IET Conferences |url=http://conferences.theiet.org/turing/speaker/previous/index.cfm |publisher=[[Institution of Engineering and Technology]] |access-date=November 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906071606/http://conferences.theiet.org/turing/speaker/previous/index.cfm |archive-date=September 6, 2015 |format=web.archive.org |date=2015 |quote=2005 – Professor Fred Brooks Jr, FREng Dist. FBCS Founding Kenan Professor of Computer Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Brooks |first1=Frederick P. |title=7th Annual Turing Lecture: Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design |url=https://tv.theiet.org/?videoid=319 |website=tv.theiet.org |publisher=Institution of Engineering and Technology |access-date=November 20, 2022 |format=video |date=January 20, 2005}}</ref>
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