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Jay Wright Forrester (July 14, 1918 – November 16, 2016) was an American computer engineer, management theorist and systems scientist. He spent his entire career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entering as a graduate student in 1939, and eventually retiring in 1989.
Jay Wright Forrester (born July 14, 1918, near Anselmo, Nebraska, U.S.—died November 16, 2016, Concord, Massachusetts) was an American electrical engineer and management expert who invented the random-access magnetic core memory, the information-storage device employed in most digital computers.
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Nov 19, 2016 · Jay W. Forrester SM ’45, professor emeritus in the MIT Sloan School of Management, founder of the field of system dynamics, and a pioneer of digital computing, died Nov. 16. He was 98. Forrester’s time at MIT was rife with invention.
Nov 18, 2016 · Jay W. Forrester, an electrical engineer whose insights into both computing and organizations more than 60 years ago gave rise to a field of computer modeling that examines the behavior of...
Jun 23, 2015 · Computing pioneer Jay Forrester, SM ’45, developed magnetic-core memory. Then he founded the field of system dynamics. Those are just two of his varied pursuits.
Nov 21, 2016 · Jay Wright Forrester was “an electrical engineer whose insights into both computing and organizations more than 60 years ago gave rise to a field of computer modeling that examines the behavior of things as specific as a corporation and as broad as global growth”, as the New York Times writes in an obituary.
Forrester focused on concrete experimental studies of organizational policy. He used computer simulations to analyze social systems and predict the implications of different models. This method came to be called “system dynamics,” and Forrester came to be recognized as its creator.
