40. Jane Plitt, President of The National Center of Women's Innovations (NCWI), on the Founders of GPS, Frequency Hopping and Duct Tape
How does a sharecropper become a pre-eminent mathematician who is able to map the world, thus paving the way for GPS? Where would we be without GPS today? Lost, for sure!
In this episode of Associations Thrive, host Joanna Pineda interviews Jane Plitt, President of the National Center of Women’s Innovations (NCWI). Jane introduces the Center, talks about her journey to becoming President, and then shares some amazing stories of women innovators, including:
Dr. Gladys West, the African-American woman who used math to map the earth's shape and made GPS possible.
Hedy Lamarr, the glamorous film…
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