Jay Forrester was born in Nebraska in 1918 and grew up on a cattle ranch. His early interest in electricity was spurred, perhaps, by the fact that the ranch had none. While in high school, he built a ...

Jay W. Forrester, 1918-2016, and one of my professors at MIT, was the raw-boned but brilliant son of a Nebraska cattle rancher who helped craft the modern computer (patents in core memory) and ...

Jay Forrester, professor emeritus of management, may be best known for his 1940s work on magnetic core memory, which ushered in the age of real-time digital computing. This breakthrough freed the ...

The modern computing world lost another one of its key pioneers with the death of Jay Forrester who was the founder of the field of system dynamics, and a pioneer of digital computing. He was 98.

Jay Forrester, a pioneer in computer design, switched careers in his late 30s, turning his attention from making digital machines to studying how corporations were managed. He wasn’t very impressed.

His pioneering work in digital computer technology gave the world reliable random-access magnetic-core memory that revolutionized computer speed and power. Nevertheless, Jay Forrester says his work ...

A trailblazer in computers in the years after World War II, Jay W. Forrester led development of the Whirlwind I, one of the first high-speed digital computers, and devised magnetic core memory, which ...

What world legacy was left for the new year that we just entered? “A chaotic world consumed by intractable conflicts” was the recent sobering assessment by world leaders at the United Nations ...