Jay Wright Forrester
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Jay Wright Forrester was an American computer engineer, management theorist and systems scientist. He spent his entire career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entering as a graduate student i
Project Whirlwind core memory, circa 1951
Whirlwind I
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Whirlwind I is a vacuum-tube computer developed by the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S. Navy. Operational in 1951, it was among the first digital electronic computers that operated in real-
Jay Wright Forrester
…retiring in 1989. During World War II Forrester worked on servomechanisms as a research assistant to Gordon S. Brown. After the war he headed MIT's Whirlwind project, one of the first digital computers. There he is credited as a co-inventor of magnetic core memory, the predominant form of random-access computer…
Whirlwind computer elements: core memory (left) and operator console
Circuitry from core memory unit of Whirlwind
Core stack from core memory unit of Whirlwind