GPS: most of us use it routinely in our cars, yet GPS affects our lives in many ways we may not realize, and its origin story—emerging from internecine conflicts of the Pentagon as different military branches pursued their own satellite navigation systems—is fascinating.

Join one of America’s foremost experts on GPS, former Stanford professor, current distinguished engineer at Google and member of NASA’s GPS advisory board, Dr. Frank van Diggelen, to learn about this story of science and subterfuge and the myriad ways GPS impacts our lives, from earthquake monitoring to how the stock market operates, how crimes are investigated, how wars are fought, and how this technology might evolve and be used in the future.

Register for this free program hosted by the Carmel Public Library Foundation.