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Bradford Parkinson "GPS for Humanity" - Stanford Engineering Hero Lecture
http://scpd.stanford.edu/ More than anything else, GPS has become the United States' gift to humanity. Cell phones rely on GPS for timing. Ship and aircraft carry multiple GPS receivers to provide positioning information. Other applications range from earth movement to disease tracking to search and rescue. Dr. Bradford Parkinson, chief GPS architect and Stanford Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Astronomics, will describe the origins and applications of GPS and explore its future.Uploaded 02-05-12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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