While a graduate student at Harvard, Dr. Brooks joined with Ken Iverson in writing Automatic Data Processing. In the preface to Iverson\'s 1962 book, A Programming Language, he wrote: “The unusually large contribution by Dr. Brooks arose as follows. Several chapters of the present work were originally prepared for inclusion in a joint work which eventually passed the bounds of a single book and evolved into our joint Automatic Data Processing and the present volume. Before the split, several drafts of these chapters had received careful review at the hands of Dr. Brooks, reviews which contributed many valuable ideas on organization, presentation, and direction of investigation, as well as numerous specific suggestions.”