Rensselaer Technology Park
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The Rensselaer Technology Park is a technology park in North Greenbush
, New York, USA operated by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
. As of 2009 the park has over 70 tenants representing a diverse range of technologies and employing over 2,400. The park is located along the Hudson River
approximately five miles south of the RPI campus.
composed of faculty, staff, alumni/trustees, and students to study feasibility of developing a park. In March 1981 The Board of Trustees authorized a $3 million investment of the endowment to design and build the infrastructure for the first phase of the Park. Between 1981 and 1982 infrastructure was planned and developed over around 150 acre (0.607029 km²), including the construction of 0.8 miles (1.3 km) of roadway and underground utilities including power, gas, water, sanitary and storm sewers and telephone. The first tenant was announced in March 1983, an optoelectronics
facility for National Semiconductor. 1983–1991 saw the development of over 100 more acres, and the introduction of several more large companies. In July 1993 Metropolitan Life opened a 212000 sq ft (19,695.4 m²) computer center that serves as the corporation's national disaster recovery site and computer software development headquarters. MapInfo
moved to the park in 1993. MapInfo was founded by three RPI students after taking a course in Technological Entrepreneurship during which they produced their first business plan.
is historic house and barn which was built around 1765 and located near the entrance of the park. The house and surrounding homestead were listed on The National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
a nanotechnology show developed at RPI.
, IBM
, and New York State to further nanotechnology
innovations. When it opened in 2007 it was the 7th most powerful supercomputing centers in the world, and remains in the top 25.
North Greenbush, New York
North Greenbush is a town in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. North Greenbush is located in the western part of the county. The population was 10,805 at the 2000 census....
, New York, USA operated by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...
. As of 2009 the park has over 70 tenants representing a diverse range of technologies and employing over 2,400. The park is located along the Hudson River
Hudson River
The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...
approximately five miles south of the RPI campus.
History
In 1979 a special task force was assembled by President George M. LowGeorge Low
George Michael Low, born George Wilhelm Low was a NASA administrator and 14th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was born near Vienna, Austria to Artur and Gertrude Burger Low, small business people in Austria...
composed of faculty, staff, alumni/trustees, and students to study feasibility of developing a park. In March 1981 The Board of Trustees authorized a $3 million investment of the endowment to design and build the infrastructure for the first phase of the Park. Between 1981 and 1982 infrastructure was planned and developed over around 150 acre (0.607029 km²), including the construction of 0.8 miles (1.3 km) of roadway and underground utilities including power, gas, water, sanitary and storm sewers and telephone. The first tenant was announced in March 1983, an optoelectronics
Optoelectronics
Optoelectronics is the study and application of electronic devices that source, detect and control light, usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, light often includes invisible forms of radiation such as gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet and infrared, in addition to visible light...
facility for National Semiconductor. 1983–1991 saw the development of over 100 more acres, and the introduction of several more large companies. In July 1993 Metropolitan Life opened a 212000 sq ft (19,695.4 m²) computer center that serves as the corporation's national disaster recovery site and computer software development headquarters. MapInfo
MapInfo
MapInfo Corporation, initially incorporated as Navigational Technologies Incorporated, was a leading Location Intelligence and GIS company, headquartered in North Greenbush, New York. It was acquired on April 19, 2007 by Pitney Bowes, and on January 28, 2009, the name of division of Pitney Bowes it...
moved to the park in 1993. MapInfo was founded by three RPI students after taking a course in Technological Entrepreneurship during which they produced their first business plan.
Tenant companies
- Achaean Technology : web site developer
- Anova Medical Supply, Inc. : Provides medical supplies and durable medical equipment.
- ASMARC : Manufactures and sells on-demand printing systems for mailing and packaging.
- Acciona Wind Power North America, LLC
- Advanced Management Systems : Provides software, hardware and consulting services to the insurance industry.
- Applied BioPhysics, Inc. Applied BioPhysics, Inc., manufactures an analytical instrument – ECISTM (Electric Cell-substrate Impedance Sensing.) It was founded by RPI professor and Nobel Laureate Ivar GiaeverIvar GiaeverIvar Giaever is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids". Giaever's share of the prize was specifically for his "experimental discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in ......
. - Applied Science Innovations, Inc. Applied Science Innovations started operations in 2003. The company develops new products and technologies and conducts research advancing state of the art in optics, electro-optics, and digital imaging.
- BullEx, LLC : a developer of fire-fighting training simulations and other related fire-security equipment.
- Capital Benefits Consulting
- Ceralink, Inc.' Ceralink implements microwave processing in the ceramic, glass and metal industries.
- Certified Marketing Services/Market Force Information
- Charles River Laboratories : a laboratory specializing in DNA profiling technology with concentration in animal identification and genotypingGenotypingGenotyping is the process of determining differences in the genetic make-up of an individual by examining the individual's DNA sequence using biological assays and comparing it to another individual's sequence or a reference sequence. It reveals the alleles an individual has inherited from their...
for biopharmaceutical firms. - Delta Consultants
- Dynamic Applications, Inc. : Custom software development
- eMatrix Solutions : IT Consulting
- E W Birch Builders : Building Contractor
- East Shore Technologies, Inc. : provider of automated fingerprint identification system products and services, from embedded systems through national level identity systems.
- Pitman Company
- eTransmedia Technologies, Inc. : Provider of electronic medical document technologies. Including Electronic Medical Records (EMR) solution, Practice Management (PM) solutions, Medical Billings, and medical transcriptionMedical transcriptionMedical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by physicians and/or other healthcare professionals, into text format.-History:...
services. - Genomics Institute : A research laboratory designed to use genetic approaches for the understanding of mammalian development and disease.
- Gas Turbine Efficiency : Provider of equipment for optimization of gas turbine performance
- GlobalSpecGlobalSpecGlobalSpec, Inc. is a technology services company which provides a search engine of engineering and industrial products, indexing over 180 million parts divided into 2,300,000 product families, from over 24,000 manufacturer and distributor catalogs. GlobalSpec is a domain-specific tool, in that...
, Inc. GlobalSpec offers SpecSearch (TM), a parametrically searchable engineering catalog library on the Internet. - InterScience, Inc.
- Jordan Energy & Food Enterprises, LLC
- MapInfoMapInfoMapInfo Corporation, initially incorporated as Navigational Technologies Incorporated, was a leading Location Intelligence and GIS company, headquartered in North Greenbush, New York. It was acquired on April 19, 2007 by Pitney Bowes, and on January 28, 2009, the name of division of Pitney Bowes it...
: leader in the development of desktop mapping software. - Logran Corporation : Supplier of high quality replacement parts for Railroad and Stationary Power Generation Industries worldwide.
- Measured Progress : a not-for-profit corporation recognized as a national leader in educational assessment.
- MESO, Inc. : Provides computerized commercial atmospheric information services.
- Metropolitan Life Insurance CompanyMetropolitan Life Insurance CompanyMetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, or MetLife, for short, and its affiliates. MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs, with 90 million customers in over 60 countries...
- Morse Zehnter Associates
- Nationwide Retirement Solutions
- Nolan Associates LLC : Association management (non-profit sector organizations).
- NYS Dept. of Education/Biological Survey Laboratory : The aquatic ecology laboratory and fish collection of New York State Museum.
- NYS Office of Court Administration : Provides the NYS Unified Court System with automated data/records management services.
- NYS Office of the State Comptroller : Provides data processing support for the Office of the New York State ComptrollerNew York State ComptrollerThe New York State Comptroller is a state cabinet officer of the U.S. state of New York. The duties of the comptroller include auditing government operations and operating the state's retirement system.-History:...
. - NYS Office of Unclaimed Funds : Processing office for this department of New York State.
- NYS Society of Professional Engineers, Inc.
- NYSERNetNYSERNetNYSERNet is an non-profit internet service provider in New York State. It mainly provides internet access to universities, colleges, museums, healthcare facilities, primary and secondary schools, and research institutions.NYSERNet's network reaches from Buffalo to New York City...
, Inc. : Provides access for high speed data communication via the Internet. - OneVision Solutions : OneVision Solutions specializes in visual and audio communication.
- S/N Precision Enterprises, Inc. : Manufacturer of high quality precision and instrument miniature ball bearings.
- School Systems Federal Credit Union
- Smith Hernandez, LLC : A New York, Capital Region Law Firm.
- Systems Implementation, Inc. : Provides data processing consultation, installation, training and other computer-related support to the small and medium sized businesses.
- Treo Solutions : a Healthcare Information Services company.
- Triad Group, LLC : A third party administrator serving self insured public and private entities in the administration of claims.
- TutorTime : Daycare Center.
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Verizon Directory Support Center :Responsible for the updating of customer listings in the Verizon North Directory Assistance databases.
- Idearc Media : Processes data for Verizon upstate New York Yellow Pages and all Verizon White Pages listings for the New York/New England on IBM.
- Verizon WirelessVerizon WirelessCellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, is one of the largest mobile network operators in the United States. The network has 107.7 million subscribers as of 2011, making it the largest wireless service provider in America....
: A regional network center. - Web Scribble Solutions, Inc. : develops and distributes specialized software for webmasters.
- WeldComputer Corp. : Designs and manufactures adaptive controls for critical resistance welding applications.
- WMHTWMHT (TV)WMHT is the call sign for a television station and radio station in Schenectady, New York owned and operated by WMHT Educational Telecommunications A non-profit corporation...
The Capital Region's PBS affiliate, WMHT Educational Telecommunications. - Tech Valley Entrepreneur Center
- Stephen Vardin & Colleagues, Inc. :Full service bookkeeping, tax preparation and training.
- Wide Horizons For Children : an adoption agency offering international and domestic adoption.
- Windward II : provides services in obtaining and maximizing tax credits and other incentives
DeFreest Homestead
The DeFreest HomesteadDeFreest Homestead
The DeFreest Homestead is a historic house and barn located in the Rensselaer Technology Park in North Greenbush, New York, United States. The homestead and surrounding land are owned and managed by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It was the original home of Philip DeFreest, one of the first...
is historic house and barn which was built around 1765 and located near the entrance of the park. The house and surrounding homestead were listed on The National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Children's Museum of Science and Technology
The Children's Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST) is the only science center in the Tech Valley designed specifically for kids and parents to Explore, Discover, and Imagine the world of science together.. It features a digital dome planetarium, which shows digital educational movies includingMoleculariumMolecularium
The Molecularium is a science education project. The first major creation of Molecularium was the 2004 Riding Snowflakes, a computer-animated, chemistry-themed show about nano-scale science, formatted for hemispherical projection environments or "digital domes" such as many planetariums found in...
a nanotechnology show developed at RPI.
Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations
The Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) is the result of a $100 Million collaboration between RPIRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...
, IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
, and New York State to further nanotechnology
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...
innovations. When it opened in 2007 it was the 7th most powerful supercomputing centers in the world, and remains in the top 25.