https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks
Can't post this without this (Brooks named his first born after Iverson and brought Iverson aboard the Dream Team at IBM):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson
The IBM 360/System family of mainframes and the subsequent OS/360 support software resulted from their inspirations.
It was Brooks that came up with the idea to go from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, and as Paul Harvey used to say,..."and the rest is history".