A BLACK WOMAN INVENTED GPS. WHAT. THE. FUČK?!?

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

There’s an article online about a Brother out west who invented something having to do with the computer. Forgot what it was exactly but I’m thinking he was credited as being one of the ones responsible for making personal computers more affordable/accessible to the general public.

People at his job ignored him until he went to some conference his job sent him to I believe out in Vegas and blew the people there away. Them folks at his job jumped onboard then, gave the man 500 dollars and told him to be at work that Monday to explain what he’d done. Those people were able to build an entire industry off the Brother’s ingenuity, made billions, and all he got was 500 and a pat on the head.

To be fair you got to read agreements you sign at work. Things you invent while working for a company often belong to them... same case for the woman above. And she was part of a team that invented GPS. So that's not racism it's common practise.

I known people caught up in these legalities before. I worked with a dude that would write software we used at a company and all he got to do was put his name on it and even then they weren't happy about that. READ THAT FINE PRINT

 

[MostReal]

Now ya'll see why I tell people to stop trusting white narratives of history.

I'll take ur inventor and raise you the black lady responsible for the drawing of the face on the dime

this country will always need black people and our gifts.

 

[MostReal]

"The Real McCoy" is a blackman too

 

[Koba St]

Y'all mad a black woman did something amazing?

Not a single person in this thread is mad. Glad no one dapped your bytch ass.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Another blow to the science is for cacs dumb ass coli crowd.

Take education seriously.

Name one Black person on here who said science is bad.

 

[You Win Perfect]

black people invented everything yet history books are filled with old useless cacs

 

[3rdWorld]

Only seeing this now..Big up to the Black queen.
We need a biopic

 

[Originalman]

dikkhead



Seriously doubt it. Most large companies and governments (NASA is both) claim ownership of anything invented by employees. She would have had patent it, maybe even would have had to quit first.

Yep when you work for say DoD, NASA and the military. You create the invention and they use it. Now most of the shyt is top secret and can't be released to society / private sector for decades later.

Thats what kills me with folks talking about drones, automation and all that shyt. The military invented that shyt decades ago and the technology has finally been allowed to be used in society now.

Thats why I say whenever you want to know where technology is going just follow the military cause they are usually 20 years or more ahead of the commercial world (and thats if that technology is ever released).

 

[Originalman]

To be fair you got to read agreements you sign at work. Things you invent while working for a company often belong to them... same case for the woman above. And she was part of a team that invented GPS. So that's not racism it's common practise.

I known people caught up in these legalities before. I worked with a dude that would write software we used at a company and all he got to do was put his name on it and even then they weren't happy about that. READ THAT FINE PRINT

Also at many companies the inventor and the company own the pantent on conjunction. The inventor gets a small cut.

Older mentor of mine who I have mentioned on here got like 25 patents while he was a director at a large company. The brotha still gets money for his patents 20 plus years later.

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

Why are your thread titles so obnoxious, Napoleon?

You can tell dude is either really young or/and socially inept.




As tho he gets awkward at dental visits and around a lot of children.



Creepy ass indian/piece of armadillo feces.




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[NYC Warrior]

Gladys West, the 'hidden figure' of GPS, inducted into Air Force hall of fame
Aris Folley12/20/18 04:19 PM EST
Gladys West, a mathematician and one of the so-called “Hidden Figures” who was lesser known for her contributions to inventing GPS, has been inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame.

A ceremony was held in West’s honor at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, a local CBS affiliate reported on Tuesday. The induction is one of the Air Force's Space Commands highest honors.

West worked among a small group of women on computing for the U.S. military in the 1950s and 1960s, just before the era when the military began to usher in a wave of electronic systems, according to a news release from the Air Force Space Command Public Affairs office. That group was later depicted in the movie "Hidden Figures."

West began working at the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory as a mathematician in 1956, where she also participated in an award-winning study that proved “the regularity of Pluto’s motion relative to Neptune” in the early 1960s, according to the release.

That's where West also programmed an IBM 7030 “Stretch” computer that delivered refined calculations for an “extremely accurate geodetic Earth model, a geoid, optimized” for what would eventually become known across the world as the Global Positioning System (GPS) orbit, the release also states.

You amazed because it wasn't a red dot forehead Indian woman, Babu?