RIP Roger Easton, Father of GPS

The man who invented GPS died today. It struck me that a company named Gaia GPS owes this man a lot, and I admit that I only learned about him because of his passing.

I felt a greater sadness when Steve Jobs died, but that’s probably a product of his dynamic public persona, and the wave of media that came after his death.

You can read the Navy’s press release here, and some comments from tech nerds over on Hacker News. His Wikipedia page has already been updated to note his death.