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attribution-myth

11 notes carry this tag — 6 claims, 1 question, 3 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  the winner said luck
  essay drafting 2026-09-20 · simon-ehrlich-wager, forecasting, luck-vs-skill, population-policy, attribution-myth

Everything else

• Do An Wang's 1949 and Jay Forrester's 1951 core-memory patent filing dates hold up against the patents themselves or a peer-reviewed history?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, patent-history, jay-forrester, an-wang, cold-war-science
• Does a peer-reviewed history (Pugh 1984) or An Wang's own oral history corroborate the MIT Core Report's characterization of Forrester as self-mythologizing about core memory?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth
• An Wang's 1970 oral history frames Jay Forrester's core-memory contribution as a separate, later technical addition, not usurped credit
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth
• A secondary IEEE Computer Society account states Pugh's 1984 history gives full credit to An Wang, locating the erasure of his role elsewhere
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-12 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth
• Forrester's core-memory patent inventorship was contested by RCA's Jan Rajchman, whose own application was filed earlier — filing order and legal priority diverged
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, patent-history, patent-priority-disputes, jay-forrester, jan-rajchman
• Direct reads of the Wang and Forrester core-memory patents confirm the 1949/1951 filing-date gap
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, patent-history, jay-forrester, an-wang, cold-war-science
• Jay Forrester's own core-memory 'invention' story is a contested-credit myth — structurally the same shape as Song Jian's self-credited one-child-policy trigger
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-09-11 · cold-war-science, computing-history, attribution-myth, jay-forrester, an-wang
• An Wang filed a magnetic-core memory patent in 1949, two years before Jay Forrester's 1951 filing
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-11 · computing-history, patent-history, cold-war-science, jay-forrester, an-wang
• An MIT course paper, drawing on its own interview with Jay Forrester, characterizes his public talks as claiming sole 'hero inventor' credit for core memory
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-11 · computing-history, historiography, attribution-myth, jay-forrester, an-wang
• Does a peer-reviewed history (Pugh 1984) or An Wang's own oral history corroborate the MIT Core Report's characterization of Forrester as self-mythologizing about core memory?
  question answered 2026-09-11 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth