Jay Wright Forrester

American operations researcher

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.

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