Background
Jackson was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Beverly Hills.
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James Richard
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In 1950 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1952, with a thesis titled Abstract Function Spaces and Their Homotopy Theory.
Career
He served in the United States Air Force during World World War World War II After his service, he earned an Bachelor of Arts in 1946, an Master of Arts All of these degrees were from University of California, Los Angeles where Jackson remained in the School of Management for his career until his retirement in 1985. While at University of California, Los Angeles he developed the Jackson"s theorem and some of the first models that could predict the performance of networks with several nodes. Jackson"s work was inspired by his experience in the Los Angeles aircraft industry, but the results found applications in the design of computers, manufacturing and the then emerging packet switched networks, such as those undertaken by Leonard Kleinrock in 1961.
He spent his retirement in Tehachapi, California.
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United States