作者：李大玖 来源：新华网 发布时间：2012-2-17 17:01:20选择字号：小 中 大 纽约聘请康奈尔大学专家打造“东部硅谷” 纽约市长迈克尔·布隆伯格2月16日提名计算机专家丹尼尔·胡滕洛赫尔担任康奈尔纽约科技园首任主要负责人，为纽约市打造“东部硅谷”的宏伟计划揭开序幕。 胡滕洛赫尔现任康奈尔大学计算机与信息科学学院院长，是计算机与信息技术领域的专家，也曾是一位成功的硅谷企业家。 布隆伯格说，纽约市正在快速成为数码领域的中心，而此次科技园区负责人选的确定将帮助纽约市向这一宏伟目标迈进。 “在这个完美团队的领导下，科技园将帮助我们吸引和培养更多人才，以激励我们在科技领域的发展，”布隆伯格说。 康奈尔纽约科技园由康奈尔大学与以色列工学院同纽约市政府合作建立，主要致力于工程和计算机科学方面的研究和应用，以带动纽约市高科技产业发展。这一项目位于纽约曼哈顿和皇后区之间的罗斯福岛，2015年破土动工，将于2017年完成第一阶段园区建设。 更多阅读 纽约斥资20亿美元建高科技中心 作者：徐绍亮 来源：科学网 www.sciencenet.cn 发布时间：2011-12-26 15:25:34选择字号：小 中 大 纽约斥资20亿美元建高科技中心 《自然》杂志2011年12月20日报道，纽约已同意投资20亿美元建立科学与工程研究院，以此来鼓舞纽约的科技工业并激发创业热潮。该研究院将由康奈尔大学和以色列理工学院负责运营管理。 美国纽约市长Michael Bloomberg之前表示，要将纽约打造成像硅谷一样的高科技中心。经过逾时1年的竞争，康奈尔大学和以色列理工学院的方案最终从7个竞标申请中脱颖而出。Bloomberg说：“在所有的申请中，康奈尔大学和以色列理工学院的方案是最大胆的，最雄心勃勃的。”他表示，新校园将会是一个“创新与发现温床”。 根据方案，校址选在纽约东河的罗斯福岛，一期建设将于2017年完结，可容纳75个全职教师和300个研究生。明年9月将开始招生，第一批课程将在临时地点进行。 初期，研究院将吸引计算机科学家、电气工程师、经济学家和企业家，围绕健康生活、建筑环境和连接媒体三个学科制定规划，学生可以进行硕士或博士学习。 在未来的30年中，康奈尔大学和以色列理工学院计划扩大学校至可容纳280个教师和2500个研究生，这将使纽约市内的工程研究生的数量几乎增加一倍。该设施将为创业公司提供孵化器和经营空间，并为在纽约创办3年的公司提供1亿5千万美元的起步资金。（科学网 徐绍亮/编译） Nature | News Cornell to build New York science campus Graduate school will focus on health care, sustainability and connective media. Brendan Borrell 20 December 2011 Article tools Print Email Rights and Permissions Share/bookmark Connotea Facebook Delicious Twitter Digg Friendfeed Look out Boston and San Francisco. These traditional hubs of innovation have a challenger in the shape of New York City, which has just signed off on a US$2-billion graduate science and engineering school to stimulate the region’s technology industry and inspire a flood of start-up companies. After a year-long competition that brought in 7 proposals from 17 leading institutions around the world, mayor Michael Bloomberg’s team selected a bid from Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa to build a new science campus on Roosevelt Island in New York's East River. The first phase of building is scheduled for completion by 2017, with the campus due to open its doors to 75 full-time faculty members and 300 graduate students. Yet enrolments could begin as soon as next September, with the school slated to kick off its first classes at a temporary off-site location. The graduate science campus will be built on Roosevelt Island in New York City and operated by Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Cornell University “Of all the applications we received, Cornell and Technion’s was far and away the boldest and most ambitious,” Bloomberg said at a press conference at the Weill Cornell Medical College in midtown Manhattan, just across the East River from Roosevelt Island. The new campus, he said, will be a “beehive of innovation and discovery”. With $100 million in city funding for infrastructure upgrades and a $350-million donation to Cornell already in hand, work on the campus should begin apace, involving levelling of an old hospital and remediation of polluted land before the school's trapezoid glass buildings can be erected. The initial phase will draw in computer scientists, electrical engineers, economists and entrepreneurs, who will develop programmes around three multidisciplinary themes: healthier life, the built environment and connective media. Students will be able to work towards either a master's in applied sciences or a master's or PhD in traditional disciplines. Over the next three decades, Cornell and Technion plan to expand the school to include 280 faculty and 2,500 graduate students, which will almost double the number of graduate engineering students in the city. The facility will offer incubator and spin-out space for start-up companies and a $150-million fund for start-ups that stay in the city for three years. Scientists and engineers at the campus will also work with mathematics and science teachers at local schools. “I am excited for New York and I am excited for science,” says Jay Walker, a Cornell graduate and inventor who is chairman of Walker Digital, a privately owned research and development lab in Stamford, Connecticut. “You are a product of your environment, and New York as an environment is an extraordinary, challenging place to think differently, adapt quickly and be global.” Surprise announcement The press conference came one month earlier than expected and just three days after another front-runner, Stanford University in California, withdrew its application. Bloomberg said that the Stanford proposal “didn’t fit for the time being”, but believes that the university would still benefit from “having a branch in New York City”. Bloomberg and his team will continue to mull proposals from Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University and New York University for other, more modest science and engineering campuses in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Harlem. Back on Cornell’s home turf of Ithaca, some 350 kilometres away in upstate New York, faculty members were surprised by the sudden turn of events. “It’s been a big topic of conversation around the department,” says Cornell computer scientist David Bindel. One big question is how the school plans to get graduate students recruited and classes up and running by the September deadline. He speculates that some Ithaca-based faculty members could spend part of their year in New York City. “It’s a tremendous logistical challenge,” he says. Nevertheless, Bindel is excited at the prospect of strengthening academic and industrial collaborations and exploring new funding opportunities in the city. Journal name: Nature DOI: doi:10.1038/nature.2011.9685 Related stories and links From nature.com Cities: Building the best cities for science 20 October 2010 Cities: The urban equation 20 October 2010 Nature's Science and the City special From elsewhere Cornell in NYC
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