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Jay W. Forrester
Professor Emeritus MIT Sloan School of Management. Author of five books on systems and world dynamics, he has been awarded several honorary doctorate degrees in multiple fields: engineering, science, political science, Humane Letters, and philosophy. Professor Forrester’s work and books have brought him numerous national and international awards and honors. |
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Davida Fox
Davida A Fox-Melanson, Retired Superintendent of the Carlisle MA Public Schools (1992-2004) and
Visiting Lecture in Educational Leadership and Administration at American International College and Bridgewater State University. She has her A.B. in Sociology from Clark University, her M.Ed. in
Elementary Education from Boston University and her C.A.GS. in School Leadership from Bridgewater
State College. Her volunteer activities include service on the school council of her district’s high school
and on the Board of Directors of a Children’s museum. |
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Jim Hines
Jim Hines taught System Dynamics at MIT for more than a decade. He started and ran the System Dynamics Distance Program (now at WPI), the deepest offering of SD courses in the world. Jim has pioneered in three areas: The use of models to generate insights, eigenvalue-based model analysis, and model creation and storage via reuseable structures. Jim has consulted to companies in a broad range of industries from banking to ship building to software development on an equally broad range of issues including corporate growth, large-scale project management, and innovation. Jim has been involved in several efforts focused specifically on macro-economic dynamics, including efforts to understand business cycles, inflation, growth, and depressions. |
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George P. Richardson
George P. Richardson's teaching and research center on computer-based tools and analyses for public administration and policy. His recent work has focused on public policy problems in social welfare and the use of formal computer-based modeling methods to help groups move toward policy consensus in complex dynamic systems. He founded and served for seven years as the executive editor of the System Dynamics Review and is the author of Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling with Dynamo (1981), Feedback Thought in Social Science and Systems Theory (1991), both of which were honored with the System Dynamics Society's Forrester Award, and the edited two-volume collection Modelling for Management: Simulation in Support of Systems Thinking (1996).
In 2003 Professor Richardson received the University at Albany President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the similar system-wide recognition from the Chancellor of the State University of New York. In 2010 he was honored with the President's Award for Excellence in Academic Service, and the SUNY-wide Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service. |
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Stephen Stuntz
Business leader and innovator pursuing new ideas and direction in sustainable and energy efficient housing. At MIT he has a long history of volunteering with the Independent Living Group System, is an elected Water Commissioner in his home town of Acton. He is an electrical engineering graduate from MIT and a graduate of the Harvard Business School |
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Lees N. Stuntz, Executive Director of the Creative Learning Exchange (CLE), founded the organization in 1993 under the direction of a Board of Trustees, which includes Jay Forrester, the founder of the field of system dynamics and the inventor of the core memory for the computer and dynamic modeling.
As Director of the CLE, Ms Stuntz gives workshops on systems thinking and system dynamics for educators as well as visiting schools to coach and lend her expertise to teachers and administrators. She maintains contacts with the system dynamics community and educators who are interested in utilizing systems thinking and system dynamics in their schools, both administratively and in the curriculum.
Stuntz has her A.B. in Sociology from Wellesley College and her M.A. in Child Study from Tufts University. Her volunteer activities have included serving on the School Board in her district for many years and on the Board of Directors for a children’s discovery learning museum. |
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