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Just the Facts: Obit for Jay Forester

Late last year, a great man, most have never heard of, passed on. Unless you are an engineer you don’t know that Jay Forester, Prof at MIT, established the field of systems modeling.  Also called simulation, this is the mathematical methodology that underlies what … Continue reading

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A Date that will live in Infamy

Dec 7 – is a day to reflect on our perspective on history – for those who do not know their history. Our time seems to be so focused on ‘today’ we lose track of even recent history. We think … Continue reading

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