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Forrester, James Wright


MIT Class of 1945


Director MIT Digital Computer Laboratory 1946-51, Whirlwind Project; Lincoln Laboratory 1951-1956 , Professor of Management Sloan School 1956-1989

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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]

Department of Electrical Engineering 1939-1940 [JWForrester_shp14]

E. P. Brooks and Jay W. Forrester [EPBrooks_shp12]

Jay Forrester with core from Whirlwind I [JWF6]

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]

Jay W. Forrester teaching in E52-454C [JWForrester_shp9]

Jay W. Forrester [JWForrester_shp18]

Jay W. Forrester's Magnetic Core, from "A Computer Perspective" p. 151 [JWForrester_shp6]

Jay W. Forrester, 1956 [JWForrester_shp4]

Jay W. Forrester, August 22 1964 [JWForrester_shp12]

Jay W. Forrester, November 8 1972 [JWForrester_shp17]

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]

Sloan faculty L-R: Robert H. Gregory, Jay W. Forrester, Douglass V. Brown, Edward P. Brooks, Gerald B. Tallman, Elting E. Morison, Gregory C. Chow, and Howard W. Johnson [EPBrooks_shp25]

Sloan School of Management Faculty (Left to right): Robert H. Gregory, Jay W. Forrester, Douglass V. Brown, Edward P. Brooks, Gerald B. Tallman, Elting E. Morison, Gregory C. Chow, and Howard W. Johnson [RHGregory_shp2]

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

Whirlwind [JWF11]

Working on Whirlwind [JWF18]

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