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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A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...
Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...
Groundbreaking Black mathematician Gladys West, who helped develop the algorithms behind GPS, died Jan. 17 at age 95. NPR's ...
SpaceX will launch an advanced, jam-resistant GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force from Florida tonight (Jan. 26), and you ...
Gladys West, who has died aged 95, was the daughter of poor black farmers who in the 1950s and 1960s was instrumental in ...
What is RTK (Real-Time Kinematic)? RTK (Real-Time Kinematic) is a satellite navigation technique that improves standard GPS accuracy from a few meters down to just a few centimeters. It works by using ...