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Jay Wright Forrester
American operations researcher (1918-2016) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 98
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.
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2016Died16 November 20161989National Medal of Technology and InnovationAward1979National Inventors Hall of FameAward1977Harry H. Goode Memorial AwardAward1974Howard N. Potts MedalAward1972IEEE Medal of HonorAward1918Born14 July 1918
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United States
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Lived 1918 to 2016 · aged 98
