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Forrester, Jay Wright

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"NEW COMPUTING MACHINE - "Whirlwind I" an ultra-high-speed digital computing machine is pictured in action at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. The Machine has a built-in 'memory' and the ability to deliver information 20,000 times a second. It can control the aircraft traffic patterns of hundreds of planes landing and taking off from an airport." December 13, 1951 [JWForrester_shp8]

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Jay W. Forrester (L) checking elements on new radio tube with Stephen H. Dodd, Jr (R) at Servomechanisms Laboratory [JWForrester_shp13]

Jay W. Forrester at his desk, 1961 [JWForrester_shp5]

Jay W. Forrester leading the Program for Senior Executives, 1961 [JWForrester_shp10]

Jay W. Forrester receiving honorable mention for "outstanding young electrical engineer of 1948" from T. W. Williams, president of Eta Kappa Nu honor society, April 1949 [JWForrester_shp7]

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Jay W. Forrester, 1956 [JWForrester_shp4]

Jay W. Forrester, August 22 1964 [JWForrester_shp12]

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Jay W. Forrester, October 4 1978 [JWForrester_shp16]

Jay W. Forrester, reading results from a computer program [JWForrester_shp11]

Povl Hermann, right, president of Denmark's Academy for Technical Sciences, presents Dr. Jay W. Forrester with the Vlademar Poulsen medal in Copenhagen, 1969 [JWForrester_shp15]

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Stephen H. Dodd (far left) with Patrick Youtz (center) and Jay W. Forrester (right)

Whirlwind [JWF11]

Working on Whirlwind [JWF18]

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