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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.