Jay W. Forrester - Operational Researcher: Creator of the System Dynamics Field Joins IFORS' OR Hall of Fame

Jay Wright Forrester's distinghished career at MIT led to his founding the field of system dynamics. By adopting servomechanistic ideas he created a new approach to simulating the behavior of social systems, to explaining that behavior and to crafting effective long-term policies. he established the subject as an academic discipline at MIT's Sloan School and led high-profile modeling studies himself. System dynamics is now one of the most widely used systems approaches in the world, with academics and practitioners on every continent, and interest, applications and publications all growing. Forrester's writings continue to inspire the field and he remains actively involved in its development