Comment Sorry, you're all missing the point.... (Score 1) 397
It's not infrastructure.
It's not location.
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). :^)
It's not location.
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).
