Patent No. 2,736,880 Multicoordinated Digital Information Storage Device
Jay W. Forrester was born in Climax, Nebraska and lived on a cattle ranch before entering the University of Nebraska. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1939 and an M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945.
Forrester was a pioneer in early digital computer developments and holds the basic patent for the invention of random-access, coincident-current magnetic storage. This became the standard memory device for digital computers.
He has served as Germeshausen Professor at MIT, directing the System Dynamics Program. The system dynamics field was created in 1956 under Forrester's leadership. Its focus was concerned with evaluating how alternative policies affect growth, stability, and changing behavior in corporations, cities and countries.
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