For all of us geeks out there, the following derivation of the traditional start-of-year message was provided to me by my colleague, Prof. Chris Bartone [Note: the original author of the derivation is unknown…]. Chris is a professor of electrical engineering at Ohio University and is also the founder of GNSS Solutions, Ltd. Thanks, Chris, for passing along this new twist on an old greeting!

About the Author

Michael Braasch is the Thomas Professor of Electrical Engineering at Ohio University (OU), a Principal Investigator with the Avionics Engineering Center (also at OU) and is the co-founder of GPSoft LLC (a software company specializing in navigation-related toolboxes for MATLAB). He has been conducting aircraft navigation research for 30 years and is an internationally recognized expert in GPS and inertial navigation.