• Jay Wright Forrester (July 14, 1918 – November 16, 2016) was an American computer engineer, management theorist and systems scientist. He spent his entire...
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    created during the mid-1950s by Professor Jay Forrester of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1956, Forrester accepted a professorship in the newly...
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  • finally published in 2008. The work is heavily influenced by the work of Jay Forrester and the MIT Systems Dynamics Group, whose World3 model formed the basis...
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    more of what we want and less of that which is undesirable? ... MIT’s Jay Forrester likes to say that the average manager can ... guess with great accuracy...
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  • operated as a series of interconnected networks. Taken together with Jay Forrester's work in cybernetic systems, which posited that all networks are regulated...
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    between the Earth and human systems. The model was based on the work of Jay Forrester of MIT,: 21  as described in his book World Dynamics. Commissioned by...
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  • Wiesner introduced the Valley Committee to Whirlwind's project lead, Jay Forrester, who convinced him that Whirlwind was sufficiently capable. In September...
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    Typhoon and Project Cyclone, with other institutions), and the lab placed Jay Forrester in charge of the project. They soon built a large analog computer for...
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    The concept first appeared in Jay Forrester's Industrial Dynamics (1961) and thus it is also known as the Forrester effect. It has been described as...
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    using magnetic cores for computer memory, but MIT computer engineer Jay Forrester received the principal patent for his invention of the coincident-current...
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    of two architectural and urban theorists, Christopher Alexander and Jay Forrester. I'm interested in the process and strategies for design. The architect...
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    by Frederick W. Viehe and An Wang in the late 1940s, and improved by Jay Forrester and Jan A. Rajchman in the early 1950s, before being commercialized...
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  • Institute of Technology as a member of a team in the department created by Jay Forrester, the inventor of system dynamics as well as the principle of magnetic...
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  • Danforth Peter Sheridan Dodds Brian Enquist Joshua Epstein Doyne Farmer Jay Forrester Nigel R. Franks Murray Gell-Mann Carlos Gershenson Nigel Goldenfeld...
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  • Meadows Nancy Leveson Russell L. Ackoff Howard T. Odum Henry Paynter Jay Forrester Gregory Bateson Stewart Brand Buckminster Fuller Robert S. McNamara...
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  • Flowers Designer of the first programmable digital electronic computer Jay Forrester American computer pioneer Charles Legeyt Fortescue Symmetrical components...
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    and flows are the basic building blocks of system dynamics models. Jay Forrester originally referred to them as "levels" rather than stocks, together...
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  • the leaner the system and more accurate the forecast. Bullwhip effect Jay Forrester Best Practice Procurement: Public and Private Sector Perspectives By...
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    themselves on the basis of co-presence rather than decision making. Jay Wright Forrester founded the field of system dynamics, which deals with the simulation...
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  • I will move the world".—Carl W. Stern, 2006 He was fond of quoting Jay Forrester: "While most people understand first-order effects, few deal well with...
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    study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), headed by Jay Forrester, began on the implications of continued growth on population increase...
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    Rhett Forrester (September 22, 1956 – January 22, 1994) was an American musician best known as the lead singer for New York-based band Riot from 1981...
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    magnetic-core memory was developed by An Wang in 1948, and improved by Jay Forrester and Jan A. Rajchman in the early 1950s, before being commercialised...
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  • Corporation. He was born in Yonkers, New York. In 1945 he worked with Jay Forrester on the Whirlwind project, one of the first real time electronic computers...
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  • exceptional scholars without them are occasionally granted tenure: Jay Forrester (electrical engineering, M.I.T.) had only a master's degree; Saul Kripke...
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  • Forrester (rugby union) James H. Forrester (1870–1928), American lawyer, judge, and politician Jay Wright Forrester (1918–2016), founder of the study...
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  • Brent Forrester is an American writer and producer, who has written for 6 Emmy Award-winning television comedies. He wrote several episodes of the animated...
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  • development center for Project Whirlwind, under the direction of Jay Forrester. In 1947, Jay Forrester enlisted David R. Brown to work on Project Whirlwind. Brown...
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    in an article in Forbes, Bailey wrote a "...sneering attack ..." on Jay Forrester, the father of system dynamics. In the article he described the book...
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    principally in Europe. The team is led by FBI Supervisory Special Agent Scott Forrester, a tough and grizzled FBI agent. Under his supervision are FBI Special...
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