Jay Wright Forrester
(1918-2016)
American operations researcher
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Jay Wright Forrester (July 14, 1918 – November 16, 2016) was a pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He is credited with being one of the inventors 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). It was part of a family of related technologies which bridged the gap between vacuum tubes and semiconductors by exploiting the magnetic properties of materials to perform switching and amplification.
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14 July 1918 Anselmo, Nebraska
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16 November 2016 (aged 98) Concord, Massachusetts
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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