On November 17, 2022, at the age of 91, Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. passed away in his home in Chapel Hill, NC surrounded by family and friends singing hymns. Many tributes have since been published, including excellent ones in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Computer Science Department, and Trinity School of Durham. Fred meant a lot to many people, and I encourage you to read these and other remembrances. To those, I now add my own. Fred was born in … [Read more...] about A Tribute to Fred Brooks, Computer Scientist and Christian
Prayers for Chapel Hill
Last Tuesday afternoon, reports began to emerge of a shooting in the Finley Forest condominiums in Chapel Hill. I immediately thought of the several graduate students in the graduate IVCF chapter who live there and called one to check on their safety. They were just returning home from class and were greeted by parked police cars surrounding one of the condos. That was the first they had heard of the shooting which happened less than an hour before. It was only the previous Friday that our graduate InterVarsity … [Read more...] about Prayers for Chapel Hill