Jay Wright Forrester (July 14, 1918 to November 16, 2016) was an American computer engineer, management theorist and systems scientist who spent his entire career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During World War II he worked on servomechanisms, and after the war he headed MIT's Whirlwind project, one of the first digital computers, where he is credited as a co-inventor of magnetic core memory, the predominant form of random access computer memory during the most explosive years of digital computer development between 1955 and 1975.
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Contribution Kind Highest HonourNational Medal of Technology 2 Connections
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Source IEEE Computer Society History Committee: Computer Pioneers: Jay Wright Forrester
Invented
Source DYNAMO (programming language) (Wikipedia)
Jay Forrester directed the Whirlwind I project at MIT, which pioneered real-time computing and magnetic core memory.
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1. Wikidata: Jay Wright Forrester
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Infobox: awards
IEEE Medal of Honor (1972) The Franklin Institute Awards, Howard N. Potts Medal National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1989) Computer History Museum Fellow (1995)
Infobox: known_for
Whirlwind I, MIT Whirlwind Random-access memory Forrester effect
View the SourceIEEE Computer Society History Committee: Computer Pioneers: Jay Wright Forrester
IEEE Computer Society History CommitteeIn Field: Computer Architecture, Biography headerQuote, In Field: Computer Architecture, Biography header
inventor of the random-access magnetic core memory matrices
DYNAMO (programming language) (Wikipedia)
Invented: DYNAMO (programming language), Lead sectionQuote, Invented: DYNAMO (programming language), Lead section
DYNAMO was initially developed under the direction of Jay Wright Forrester in the late 1950s
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