Jay Forrester (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2016
- Jay Forrester SM ’45 (Part 1)
Germeshausen Professor of Management, emeritus
Project Whirlwind 1944-1956
A pioneer in early digital computing, Jay Forrester began his career as an engineer and is credited with inventing the first military radar systems and flight simulators, random-access memory, and the Whirlwind digital computer. In the mid-1950s Professor Forrester moved into management, where he became the father of system dynamics, using his knowledge of and experience with electrical systems to analyze human systems. He is currently writing about revamping the US education system.
The discussion of Gen. MacArthur and Sperry was amazing. Forrester was a fairly young guy with tremendous impact. Best 2 hours I have spent in a while watching.
I love how at 1:12:10 he says that he has only published one second rate physics paper "and I created the computer industry and a few other things". What a legend. This man spearheaded the creation of the American computer industry essentially from scratch, and personally wrote the contract between the airforce and IBM. This was the beginning of IBM and the computer industry as a whole. Amazing. Then he leaves the whole damn thing around 1956 because he was bored now that digital computers were now actually reliable and worked. Then he just decides to create the discipline of system dynamics as it is known today.
This was a great listen, his explanation of information that's trapped in our heads was definitely validated by this talk. I'm sure given enough time there was a lot more information in Mr Forrester's head that would be tremendous to hear about. Sadly he's passed, but these memories live on, information that's moved from an individual's memory to the global memory
That’s the beauty of this MIT project
Nothing is wasted.
He came to speak at my college and I got to talk to him and he was very warm and encouraging to young people.
I lived in his neighborhood (Conantum), delivered his newspaper as a kid.
Always again a pure pleasure to listen to #JayForrester. There is so much to learn from him. So glad to have met him in 2007 a couple of time.
Asmr Gold
I love this 🙌🏼
What does this say about the scions like Steve Jobs and the rest about their supposed genius??? This are the real brains behind our present communication technology.
Cool Stuff!!! i like is work very...... Club of Rom
1:17:00 experience....
1:36:00 urban dynamics
Time vs cost of memory snippet starts @ 42:20
Self correcting electrolytic capacitor circuit explanation
Starts @ ~ 29:30
Amused chuckle @ 30:30
$35/term!!!!!!! And this guy walks circles around any modern day college graduate spending >$100k for a 4-yr degree!!!
That is because college is a profit making scam now, not a place to be educated
Pure moisture