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Features: July 29, 2002
Rensselaer Creates $33 Million Broadband
Research Center
Rensselaer, with generous support from IBM,
is forming a $33
million research center that will create an information
technology infrastructure so advanced that it can handle
any level of Internet traffic, data storage, and new scientific
challenges that require immense computing power, such as
bioinformatics.
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Research in the new Rensselaer Center for
Broadband Data Transport Science and Technology will lead
to commercial initiatives in computing and communications
that will position New York state for significant new industrial
growth opportunities.
"This new center is essential to creating
an information technology infrastructure that can meet the
demands of inevitable and rapid societal and scientific
advances," said President Shirley Ann Jackson. "Our
partnership with IBM, a longtime supporter of research and
education at Rensselaer, will ensure that the best minds
and the best technology work in concert to address these
critical IT issues."
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"This new center is essential
to creating an information technology infrastructure
that can meet the demands of inevitable and rapid societal
and scientific advances."
—President Shirley Jackson —
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Housed in the Low Center for Industrial
Innovation, the center will be headed by Michael Shur, the
Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts '48 Professor of Solid
State Electronics. Shur says the center is the first of
its kind dedicated to entire systems rather than individual
chips. "This is the next frontier for information technology,"
said Shur.
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