“Father of GPS” awarded IEEE Medal of Honor Monday, May 14, 2018 (0 Comments)

Posted by: Pablo Valerio

Share | At the IEEE honors ceremony in San Francisco, Bradford Parkinson, a retired Air Force colonel who spent his life between maps and navigation systems, was awarded the 2018 IEEE Medal of Honor, “For fundamental contributions to and leadership in developing the design and driving the early applications of the Global Positioning System.” In today’s world of connected devices, we take satellite navigation, commonly known as GPS, for granted. We use it on our smartphones on a daily basis, to get our bearings when we drive to a new location, when we look for an address on the street, and when we send our location to the Uber driver. Read More at IOT Times.