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Jay Wright Forrester
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American operations researcher (1918–2016)
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Jay Wright Forrester was an American engineer, university teacher, and computer scientist born in Anselmo in 1918. He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Forrester was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His professional fields included system dynamics, computer science, systems theory, and cybernetics.
He received several awards, including the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the Howard N. Potts Medal, and the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award. Forrester was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. He is also recognized in the National Inventors Hall of Fame collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Forrester authored nine works, including *System dynamics*, *The changing face of industry; the role of industrial dynamics*, and *Collected papers of Jay W. Forrester*. He died in Concord in 2016.
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- Born
- 1918
- Died
- 2016
- Works
- 9
Top works
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- System dynamics
- The changing face of industry; the role of industrial dynamics
- Collected papers of Jay W. Forrester
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1918-07-14 ) July 14, 1918, Anselmo, Nebraska , U.S.
- Died
- November 16, 2016 (2016-11-16) (aged 98), Concord, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Education
- University of Nebraska ( BS ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MS )
- Known for
- MIT Whirlwind Random-access memory Forrester effect
- Awards
- IEEE Medal of Honor (1972) Howard N. Potts Medal National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1989) Computer History Museum Fellow (1995)
- Institutions
- MIT Sloan School of Management (1956)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Anselmo
- Place of death
- Concord
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- Educated at
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Employer
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- cybernetics
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- date of birth
- 1918-07-14
- member of
- National Academy of Engineering
- date of death
- 2016-11-16
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10011397
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
During World War II Forrester worked on servomechanisms as a research assistant to Gordon S. Brown. After the war he headed MIT's Whirlwind project, one of the first digital computers. There he is credited as a co-inventor of magnetic core memory, the predominant form of random-access computer memory during the most explosive years of digital computer development (between 1955 and 1975). It was part of a family of related technologies which bridged the gap between vacuum tubes and semiconductors by exploiting the magnetic properties of materials to perform switching and amplification. His team is also believed to have created the first animation in the history of computer graphics, a "jumping ball" on an oscilloscope.
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