# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-wright-forrester
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:33:53.152Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-wright-forrester"
name: "Jay Wright Forrester"
slug: "jay-wright-forrester"
description: "Jay Wright Forrester 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."
tagline: "American operations researcher (1918–2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/Jay_Forrester.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1918-07-14"
deathDate: "2016-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump