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Jay Wright Forrester

1918 - 2016

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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 digital computer project. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jay Wright Forrester is the 85th most popular computer scientist (down from 63rd in 2019), the 4,734th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,894th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 85 out of 245. Before him are Evelyn Berezin, Ruzena Bajcsy, Edwin Catmull, Larry Tesler, Nolan Bushnell, and Dana Scott. After him are Joseph Sifakis, Martin Hellman, Ninoslav Marina, Radia Perlman, John Henry Holland, and Evan Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 156. Before him are Martin Lundström, Ruggiero Ricci, Douglas Bennett, Elmore James, Bobby Riggs, and Mehdi Huseynzade. After him are María Mercader, Cornell Capa, James Aldridge, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Oles Honchar, and Ted Williams. Among people deceased in 2016, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 216. Before him are Miruts Yifter, Frank Finlay, Ofelya Hambardzumyan, Sigge Parling, Halil İnalcık, and Steven Hill. After him are Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Naná Vasconcelos, Jacques Hamel, Sándor Tarics, Lars Gustafsson, and Vladica Kovačević.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 4,734 out of 20,380. Before him are Theodore Van Kirk (1921), Judith Reisman (1935), Nick Cravat (1912), Misha Collins (1974), Douglas Tompkins (1943), and Huey Long (1893). After him are Jim Thorpe (1887), Donna Tartt (1963), Louis Farrakhan (1933), Lunalilo (1835), Roy Ayers (1940), and Anna Coleman Ladd (1878).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 51. Before him are Warren Weaver (1894), Evelyn Berezin (1925), Edwin Catmull (1945), Larry Tesler (1945), Nolan Bushnell (1943), and Dana Scott (1932). After him are Martin Hellman (1945), Radia Perlman (1951), John Henry Holland (1929), Evan Williams (1972), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), and Gary Kildall (1942).

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