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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
thezebra.org
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
![Subject: Edge Reality Conversation on Jaron Lanier's "The Myth Of Al"
To: Chris Anderson, Chris Anderson, Ross Anderson, Jeff Bezos, Stewart =rand, Sergey Brin, Rodney Brooks, Jerry Coyne,
Paul Davies, Richard =awkins, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Peter Diamandis, Jared Diamond, =ory Doctorow, Esther
Dyson, Freeman Dyson, George Dyson, Brian Eno, =effrey Epstein, Tony Fadell, Bill GateDavid Gelernter, Niel
=ershenfeld, Gerd Gigerenzer, Anthony Grayling, Brian Greene, Alan Guth, =onathan Haidt, Sam Harris, Danny Hillis,
Jennifer Jacquet, Seth Lloyd, =aniel Kahneman, Salar Kamangar, Dean Kamen, Kelly Kevin, Vinod Khosla, =awrence
Krauss, Andrian Kreye, Janna Levin, Andrei Linde, Chiara =arletto, John Markoff, Yuri Milner, Marvin Minsky, Evgeny
Morozov, =endhil Mullainathan, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Norvig, Hans Ulrich Obrist, =im O'Reilly, Larry Page, Bruce
Parker, David Pescovitz, Steven Pinker, =artin Rees, Douglas Rushkoff, Terrence Sejnowski, Michael Shermer, Clay =hirky,
Lee Smolin, George Smoot, Paul Steinhardt, Bruce Sterling, =ictoria Stodden, Steven Strogatz, Leonard Susskind, Richard
Thaler, =ebastian Thrun, Neil Turok, Craig Venter, Jimmy Wales, Geoffrey West, =van Williams, Anton Zeilinger
JARON LANIER: "THE MYTH OF Al"
http://edge.org/conversation/the-myth-of-ai
REALITY CLUB DISCUSSION
http://edge.org/conversation/the-myth-of-ai#rc
(To date:] Elon Musk, George Church, Peter Diamandis, Lee Smolin, Rodney =rooks, Nathan Myhvold, George Dyson
As I suspected, a useful conversation has broken out. But you Edgies =re, as usual, an impetuous and unruly bunch.
Rather than send everyone =n the list your comments, please send directly to me and I will post
with minimal delay to the following =RL:
http://edge.org/conversation/the-myth-of-ai#rc
Thanks,
JB
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