WEST DEER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A person is dead after a house fire in Allegheny County. Firefighters were called to the home in the 100 block of Trump Road in West Deer Township around 10:40 a.m. Our crew ...
Gladys West, a mathematician at the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory whose modeling of the Earth’s shape played a critical role in the development of GPS, the global satellite mapping system that pilots, ...
As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system. Dr. Gladys West spent her career in ...
Police have confirmed that the third person in a fatal crash on West Ridge Road has died. Police identified the third victim who died in the crash as 25-year-old Riesen Love Kimmerly. Her family ...
A Sacramento woman died and a West Sacramento man was taken into custody following a two-car crash Sunday on West Capitol Avenue, police said. West Sacramento police officers responded about 1:40 p.m.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JFK Library Foundation The last surviving member of President John F. Kennedy’s West Wing staff has died, severing a living link ...
Next time you plug an address into an app for directions or tag a social media post with your location, please take a second to thank Gladys West. She was an African American mathematician who helped ...
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. Next time ...
She navigated segregation to become an esteemed mathematician — and today, her work helps billions of people navigate the world. Gladys West, whose pioneering career contributed key elements to what ...