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  1. 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.

  2. 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. He also led the development of an early general ...

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  3. Nov 19, 2016 · Bryan Marquard writes for The Boston Globe about the legacy of Prof. Emeritus Jay Forrester, a computing pioneer who died at age 98. Marquard writes that Forrester was a “trailblazer in computers in the years after World War II,” then “pivoted from computers into another new field and founded the discipline of system dynamics modeling.”

  4. Nov 18, 2016 · Jay Wright Forrester was born on July 14, 1918, on his family’s cattle ranch, 18 miles from the nearest town, Anselmo, Neb. His parents, both of them teachers as well as ranchers, were among the ...

  5. Jay W. Forrester. 1918 – 2016. Jay Wright Forrester was a pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He is credited with being one of the inventors of magnetic core memory, the creator of the first computer animation, and the father of the field of System Dynamics.

  6. JAY WRIGHT FORRESTER, a pioneer in digital computation and management information systems, creator of the system dynamics computer simulation method, and Germeshausen Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died November 16, 2016, at the age of 98. He was born July 14, 1918, on a cattle ranch near Climax, Nebraska ...

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  8. Jay Wright Forrester was born in 1918 on a cattle ranch near Anselmo, Nebraska, in the middle of the United States. His early interest in electricity was spurred, perhaps, by the fact that the ranch had none. While in high school, he built a wind-driven, 12-volt electrical system using old car parts—it gave the ranch its first electric power.