James Spilker, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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US engineer, one of the originators of GPS
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About James Spilker
- James Julius Spilker Jr.
- (August 4, 1933 – September 24, 2019) was an American engineer and a Consulting Professor in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at Stanford University.
- He was one of the principal architects of the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a co-founder of the space communications company Stanford Telecommunications and was most recently executive chairman of AOSense Inc., Sunnyvale, CA. James Spilker was an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (1998) and was inducted to the Air Force GPS Hall of Fame (2000) and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame (2007).
- He was a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation (ION).
- As one of the originators of GPS, James Spilker shared in the Goddard Memorial Trophy (2012).
- He won the Arthur Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1987, the ION Kepler Award (the highest award of the ION) in 1999 and Burka Award in 2002, and the US Air Force Space Command Recognition Award for 9 years of service on GPS Independent Review Team in 2000.
- In 2015, he received the IEEE Edison Gold Medal for contributions to the technology and implementation of the GPS civilian navigation system.
- In 2019, James Spilker shared the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering with three other GPS pioneers (Bradford Parkinson, Hugo Fruehauf, and Richard Schwartz).The James and Anna Marie Spilker Engineering and Applied Sciences Building at Stanford, and in 2005 co-founded the Stanford University Center for Position, Navigation and Time.
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