Jay forrester biography

American operations researcher

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Jay Wright Forrester (July 14, 1918 – November 16, 2016) was an American computer engineer, management theorist and systems scientist.^[2] He spent his entire career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entering as a graduate student in 1939, and eventually retiring in 1989.^[3]

During World War II Forrester worked on servomechanisms as a research assistant to Gordon S.

Brown.

Jay forrester biography

After the war he headed MIT's Whirlwind digital computer project. There he is credited as a co-inventor of magnetic core memory, the predominant form of random-accesscomputer 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.^[4] His team