Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95

As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global ...
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Watch SpaceX launch advanced GPS satellite for US Space Force tonight

SpaceX will launch an advanced, jam-resistant GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force from Florida tonight (Jan. 26), and you ...

The Human Brain's "GPS System" May Date Back 400 Million Years, New Nature Study on Zebrafish Suggests

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...
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Gladys West, mathematician whose work paved the way for GPS, dies at 95

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

Black mathematician Gladys West, who helped develop GPS, has died at age 95

Groundbreaking Black mathematician Gladys West, who helped develop the algorithms behind GPS, died Jan. 17 at age 95. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Marvin Jackson, who co-wrote West's memoir.
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Magellan Systems Corporation GPS Records

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Donated to the Archives Center in 2010, by MiTAC Digital Corporation through Michael Williams, Director of Marketing and Gary Barta, Janice Itnyre ...