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SUMMARY:How Do We Know What to Design? - Fred Brooks\,  University of Nort
 h Carolina at Chapel Hill
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CONTACT:Timothy G. Griffin
DESCRIPTION:One easily thinks of the design of complex systems\, hardware 
 or software\, as a rational process that has a rational model\, such as th
 at put forth by Herbert Simon\, or that of Pahl and Beitz\, or Winton Royc
 e's Waterfall Model for software engineering.  Upon examination\, though\,
  such models don't seem to fit the way real designers work.  In particular
 \, I would assert that it is impossible to set the requirements for such a
  design before beginning.\n\nSeveral people have proposed alternate models
 \, but in software engineering\, at least\, the Waterfall Model persists\,
  tenaciously and disastrously.   Why?  Is there any hope for remedying thi
 s situation?\n\n-------\n\nFrederick P. Brooks\, Jr.\, is Kenan Professor 
 of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  H
 e was an architect of the IBM Stretch and Harvest computers.  He was Corpo
 rate Project Manager for the IBM System/360\, including development of the
  System/360 computer family hardware\, and the Operating System/360 softwa
 re.  He founded the UNC Department of Computer Science in 1964 and chaired
  it for 20 years.  \n\nHis research has been in computer architecture\, so
 ftware engineering\, and interactive 3-D computer graphics ("virtual envir
 onments").  His best-known books are The Mythical Man-Month:  Essays on So
 ftware Engineering (1975\, 1995)\, and Computer Architecture:  Concepts an
 d Evolution (with G.A. Blaauw\, 1997).  \n\nDr. Brooks has received the AC
 M Turing Award and is a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Socie
 ty and a Foreign Member of the  U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering\, and th
 e Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He is currently a visiting sc
 holar with Cambridge's Rainbow group.\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory
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