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Jay W. Forrester Dies at 98; a Pioneer in Computer Models


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Jay W. Forrester, MIT

Jay W. Forrester, an M.I.T. professor, first developed system dynamics in a project for General Electric, and later applied it to global problems.

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Jay W. Forrester, an electrical engineer whose insights into both computing and organizations more than 60 years ago gave rise to a field of computer modeling that examines the behavior of things as specific as a corporation and as broad as global growth, died on Wednesday at his home in Concord, Mass. He was 98.

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