It's not RPI (did you read what this was?? It's _not_ computer science... it's material science... thin film deposition for making chips, etc).
The _real_ reason is that there is a brilliant physicist at SUNYA who has been doing fantastic research there for more than 10 years... and it's in materials science. I should know... he was my advisor as an undergrad. Dr. Kaloyeros... (of course, by this point he has an army of phd students and post docs personally trained by him, so that helps a lot, too...).
Go look into the press releases. Most of the things people are pointing out here are irrelevent; it all comes down to the talent that's there, and it's at SUNYA (perhaps ironically).:^)
If you look at who's at the center of all this, you'll see it's just Kaloyeros, not even SUNYA. Pretty amazing, and nice to see how far he's gone. This is almost big enough for his ego... LOL.
It's a certain prof. A. Kaloyeros, of the SUNY Albnay physics dept. I worked for him as an undergrad, and he was doing groundbreaking research in materials science. (I probably shoulda stayed working there and done my grad work there, but no.... I thought I was gonna do optics:-p oh well).
Trust me, he's built quite a program there from nothing (most of the other faculty was rather envious of him when I left in 93, I can only imagine how it is now). I'm not sure how much credit he gets, but I know that he was near the front of the pack in the process that eventually resulted switching conductive materials within chips to copper (everything was Al until very recently; it's easy to work with, but copper has a lower resistivity, so it generates less heat... tougher to work with, though...).
Wonder if I'll ever end up back in Albany, now that they'll actually be some jobs there.:^)
Chrisf
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It's not RPI (did you read what this was?? It's _not_ computer science... it's material science... thin film deposition for making chips, etc).
The _real_ reason is that there is a brilliant physicist at SUNYA who has been doing fantastic research there for more than 10 years... and it's in materials science. I should know... he was my advisor as an undergrad. Dr. Kaloyeros... (of course, by this point he has an army of phd students and post docs personally trained by him, so that helps a lot, too...).
Go look into the press releases. Most of the things people are pointing out here are irrelevent; it all comes down to the talent that's there, and it's at SUNYA (perhaps ironically).
If you look at who's at the center of all this, you'll see it's just Kaloyeros, not even SUNYA. Pretty amazing, and nice to see how far he's gone. This is almost big enough for his ego... LOL.
It's a certain prof. A. Kaloyeros, of the SUNY Albnay physics dept. I worked for him as an undergrad, and he was doing groundbreaking research in materials science. (I probably shoulda stayed working there and done my grad work there, but no.... I thought I was gonna do optics :-p oh well).
Trust me, he's built quite a program there from nothing (most of the other faculty was rather envious of him when I left in 93, I can only imagine how it is now). I'm not sure how much credit he gets, but I know that he was near the front of the pack in the process that eventually resulted switching conductive materials within chips to copper (everything was Al until very recently; it's easy to work with, but copper has a lower resistivity, so it generates less heat... tougher to work with, though...).
Wonder if I'll ever end up back in Albany, now that they'll actually be some jobs there. :^)
Chrisf