Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Roosevelt Island's Cornell NYC Tech Campus Will Make NYC The High Tech Capital Of The World Says Technion Professor - Cornell Will Give Update To Community Board 8 Cornell/Roosevelt Island Task Force July 31

Image  of preliminary Roosevelt Island Cornell NYC Tech Campus From You Tube Video

An update on Cornell Technion NYC Tech Roosevelt Island campus scheduled to open in 2017.

Community Board 8's (CB 8) Cornell/Roosevelt Island Task Force will be holding a meeting on July 31 at which time Cornell will provide an update on its plans for the Cornell NYC Tech campus. According to CB 8:
Cornell/Roosevelt Island Task Force

Meeting Date:
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 6:30pm
Meeting Location:
TBA
TBA
New York, NY

Update by Cornell University on the Cornell Technion project on Roosevelt Island
Old Business
New Business

Nicholas D. Viest and James Clynes, Co-Chairs
More on CB 8's Cornell/Roosevelt Island Task Force from previous posts.

Crains reported on July 6:
... Within the last two weeks, CornellNYC Tech, a collaboration between Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, sent out a request for expressions of interest to numerous developers for three different building projects: a conference center/hotel; a residence for faculty, staff and students; and a commercial property that would be leased to technology industry-related companies....
and:
... Responses to the request are due in August and the formal request for proposals is slated to go out later this year....
Here's more on Cornell's plans for Roosevelt Island campus including video presentation from Cornell officials to May 8 CB 8 Roosevelt Island/Cornell Task Force.

Also an interview with Professor Craig Gotsman, Technion Computer Science professor and Founding Director of TCII-Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute. Professor Gotsman says:
... the goal of the entire NYC Tech campus, and the TCII within it, as conceived by Mayor Bloomberg, is to turn NYC into the high-tech capital of the world....

You Tube Video of Interview with Professor Craig Gotsman

Roosevelt Island, the High Tech Capital Of the World - who would have thought that?

1 comments :

YetAnotherRIer said...

"Roosevelt Island, the High Tech Capital Of the World"

Eh, what? It takes a bit more than some campus of one university to make a place the "High Tech Capital Of the World". I am very sure that any of the communities within Silicon Valley are decades ahead of NYC.