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Gladys West, who has died aged 95, was the daughter of poor black farmers who in the 1950s and 1960s was instrumental in ...

Gladys Mae West, the quiet mathematician behind the Global Positioning System that now guides everything from ride-hailing ...

Gladys West, the mathematician who helped develop the basis for GPS, has died. She was 95. Dinwiddie County officials in ...

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A record six Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students have been named to the Aviation Week Network 20 Twenties Class of 2026, which recognizes outstanding aerospace-focused university students.

Residents on Crews Lake Drive fought against the development on 300 acres, which was previously approved by county staff and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

We use heuristics to solve computationally difficult problems where optimal solutions are too expensive to deploy, hard to manage, or otherwise inefficient. Our prior work, MetaOpt, shows many of the ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...