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Jay Wright Forrester

1918 - 2016

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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 311,029 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jay Wright Forrester is the 63rd most popular computer scientist (down from 50th in 2019), the 3,894th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,425th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jay Wright Forresters by language

Over the past year Jay Wright Forrester has had the most page views in the with 33,514 views, followed by Spanish (4,595), and Russian (4,579). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (120.34%), Egyptian Arabic (114.04%), and Danish (78.41%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 63 out of 245. Before him are Larry Wall, Ole-Johan Dahl, James H. Wilkinson, Alfred Aho, Pierre Bézier, and Ron Rivest. After him are Edward Feigenbaum, Charles P. Thacker, Dana Scott, Martin Hellman, Gary Kildall, and Leonard Adleman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 141. Before him are Ján Kadár, Jerome Robbins, Jelle Zijlstra, Suzanne Flon, Ted Williams, and Bruno Zevi. After him are Kazuo Sakamaki, Anatoly Tarasov, Georgios Rallis, María Mercader, Mehdi Huseynzade, and Brenda Milner. Among people deceased in 2016, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 195. Before him are Halil İnalcık, Madeleine Lebeau, Željko Čajkovski, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Guido Westerwelle, and S. R. Nathan. After him are Roberto Perfumo, Lars Gustafsson, Frank Sinatra Jr., Arnold Palmer, Harry Wu, and Susannah Mushatt Jones.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 3,894 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Reiser (1957), John Marley (1907), Donald P. Bellisario (1935), Ted Williams (1918), Lenny Bruce (1925), and Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945). After him are John Garfield (1913), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), Leslie Jones (1967), Aaliyah (1979), Muse Watson (1948), and Jack Sharkey (1902).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Jay Wright Forrester ranks 38. Before him are Edwin Catmull (1945), Vernor Vinge (1944), Don Norman (1935), Warren Weaver (1894), Larry Wall (1954), and Ron Rivest (1947). After him are Edward Feigenbaum (1936), Charles P. Thacker (1943), Dana Scott (1932), Martin Hellman (1945), Gary Kildall (1942), and Leonard Adleman (1945).

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