New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Jay Wright Forrester

1918 - 2016

Photo of Jay Wright Forrester

Icon of person Jay Wright Forrester

Jay Wright Forrester (July 14, 1918 – November 16, 2016) 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 in 1939, and eventually 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 digital computer project. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jay Wright Forrester has received more than 314,397 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jay Wright Forrester is the 50th most popular computer scientist (down from 39th in 2019), the 3,434th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,821st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jay Wright Forresters by language


Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 50 out of 201. Before him are Leslie Lamport, Fred Brooks, Warren Weaver, Pierre Bézier, Charles Bachman, and Joseph Weizenbaum. After him are Alan Perlis, Edwin Catmull, Vernor Vinge, Gil Amelio, James Gosling, and Amir Pnueli.

Most Popular Computer Scientists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 127. Before him are Teresa Wright, James Aldridge, Antonín Mrkos, Ruggiero Ricci, Jeff Chandler, and George Mosse. After him are Mickey Spillane, Willi Graf, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Bruno Zevi, María Mercader, and Ángel Labruna. Among people deceased in 2016, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 169. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, S. R. Nathan, Marc Riboud, Silvio Gazzaniga, Guido Westerwelle, and Lola Novaković. After him are Bill Mollison, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Fredrik Barth, Artur Fischer, Fazil Iskander, and Zdravko Tolimir.

Others Born in 1918

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2016

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United States

Among people born in United States, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 3,434 out of 18,182. Before him are Stephen Curry (1988), Charlie Kaufman (1958), Gig Young (1913), René Auberjonois (1940), Ben Turpin (1869), and Gregory Jarvis (1944). After him are Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Jessica Walter (1941), Mickey Spillane (1918), Geraldine Farrar (1882), and Paul Giamatti (1967).

Others born in United States

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 32. Before him are Frances E. Allen (1932), Don Norman (1935), Leslie Lamport (1941), Fred Brooks (1931), Warren Weaver (1894), and Charles Bachman (1924). After him are Alan Perlis (1922), Edwin Catmull (1945), Vernor Vinge (1944), Gil Amelio (1943), Larry Wall (1954), and Larry Tesler (1945).

American born Computer Scientists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL