Announcement Of Joint University At Albany And Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Interconnect Focus Center For Semiconductor Research To Be Headquartered At Cestm

Announcement of joint University at Albany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Interconnect Focus Center for semiconductor research to be headquartered at CESTM. SUNY Stony Brook and Cornell University will be partners. Subsequent articles refer to the Center as the Focus Research Center (FRC) and state that the Georgia Institute of Technology will administer the $45 million in funds the FRC will receive in its first three years. Part of a national Focus Center in Interconnects, the Georgia lead team will concentrate on overcoming technical issues of creating every faster computers. The Focus Center-New York (FC-NY) will be headquartered at CESTM and Alain Kaloyeros will direct the Albany program while Timothy S. Cale, professor of chemical engineering at RPI will direct its program. FC-NY will receive $5,85 million over three years from Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation, a subsidiary of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, and over the same period will receive $15 million from New York State, as well as $24 million in cash and infrastructure support from private industry.

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"Interconnect Focus Center at University," Albany Magazine, Fall 1998, p. 21; "Interconnect Research Center Will Focus on Ever-Faster Computers," University Update, January 27, 1999, p. 5