Jay Wright Forrester

American operations researcher (1918–2016)

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Lived 1918–2016, aged 98United States

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Aged 98
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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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Jay Forrester
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