Kalman published his filter in 1960... a little over 50 years but I'd say it's worthy to mention given its huge impact. The idea that we can use multiple noisy

Kalman published his filter in 1960... a little over 50 years but I'd say it's worthy to mention given its huge impact. The idea that we can use multiple noisy sensors to get a more accurate reading than any one of them could provide enables all kinds of autonomous systems. Basically everything that uses sensors (which is essentially every device these days) is better due to this fact.