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Forrester, Jay W

LC control no.n 79126936
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Personal name headingForrester, Jay W.
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Variant(s)Forrester, J. W.
Forrester, Jay Wright
Other standard no.000000011886098X
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1918-07-14
Death date2016-11-16
Place of birthAnselmo (Neb.)
Place of deathConcord (Mass.)
Field of activityComputer engineering Systems software System analysis
AffiliationMassachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management
Profession or occupationComputer engineers Electrical engineers Scientists College teachers
Found inRego, J.C. El modelo urbano de Forrester, 1983: leaf 1 (Jay Forrester)
Principes des systèmes, c1984: t.p. (J.W. Forrester)
Industrial dynamics, 1961: title page (Jay W. Forrester)
Last call, 2013: title frame (Jay Forrester)
Principles of systems, 1968: title page (Jay W. Forrester)
World dynamics, c1971: t.p. (Jay W. Forrester)
OCLC database, Oct. 11, 2013 (Forrester, Jay W., Forrester, J.W. ; usage: Jay W. Forrester, J.W. Forrester)
New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 18, 2016 (in obituary published Nov. 17: Jay W. Forrester; b. Jay Wright Forrester, July 14, 1918, on his family's cattle ranch, 18 miles from the nearest town, Anselmo, Neb.; d. Wednesday [Nov. 16, 2016], Concord, Mass., aged 98; electrical engineer whose insights into both computing and organizations more than 60 years ago gave rise to a field of computer modeling that examines the behavior of things as specific as a corporation and as broad as global growth)
Wikipedia, viewed May 24, 2023 (Jay Wright Forrester; born July 14, 1918 in Anselmo, Nebraska, U.S.; died November 16, 2016 in Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.; pioneering computer engineer and systems scientist; later professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management)
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Associated languageeng