The hope is to build an ecosystem like Haifa’s, where industry and academics feed off each other.
The Technion: Israel’s Hard Drive (The New York Times)
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is Cornell’s partner in creating an ambitious graduate school for applied sciences and engineering in New York City, Cornell NYC Tech.
The New York Times’ Education Life weekend section looks at the beta class and educational roll-out of Cornell NYC Tech so far, a new graduate program in applied sciences that is not your typical Master’s program:
“In Ithaca, you take a bunch of classes and then you have your one master’s project — you work on it alone,” said Mr. Kopp, who transferred from a master’s program at Cornell’s main campus. “It typically doesn’t have a business aspect to it, or you might be working on something that a professor is doing. This has a very different feel to it.”
Big cities, big data! Today, Mayor Bloomberg joined NYU President Sexton to announce partnerships between Center for Urban Science & Progress and Microsoft and Lutron Electronics and to inaugurate the new Brooklyn office. Find out more at NYU CUSP’s website.
Photo credit: Edward Reed/NYC Mayor’s Office
This morning, NYCEDC Executive Director Kyle Kimball hosted an industry panel on big data at Columbia University’s Institute for Data Science and Engineering. The panel featured Shawn Edwards, CTO of Bloomberg LP; Jennifer Tour Chayes, Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England and NYC; Justin Moore, Engineer at Facebook; and Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer at Google. Find out more.
Inaugural Symposium for the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering
This Friday, join NYCEDC Executive Director Kyle Kimball at “From Big Data to Big Ideas,” the inaugural symposium of Columbia University’s Institute for Data Science and Engineering—part of Applied Sciences NYC. He will be moderating the 11:15am Industry panel.
Source: idse-columbia
Game on: A new videogame institute is coming to Downtown Brooklyn.
Photo credit: Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal
20 Schools Selected for the New Software Engineering Pilot Program
Twenty middle and high schools have been selected for the new Software Engineering Pilot program to begin at the start of the next school year. The schools will receive comprehensive computer science and software engineering curriculum for the 1,000 students expected to participate this fall and by 2016, the program will grow to 3,500 students. The program is part of the City’s work to prepare students for college and careers in the technology sector.
The first year of the program, core topics taught will include computer programming, embedded electronics, web design and programming, e-textiles, robotics and mobile computing. The pilot will also offer classes including digital fabrication, 3-D printing and animation. In addition, participating high schools will also receive support in applying for NYS Education Department approval which can award a Career and Technical Education endorsement to graduating students who complete the program.
For more, visit nyc.gov.
Source: nycgov
Let’s also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they’re ready for a job. At schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools, the City University of New York, and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.
Obama Calls for Tech-Focused High Schools (Mashable) in his 2013 State of the Union Address
Go, P-Tech! #AppSciNYC
It’s worked in terms of developing ideas that we never would have thought of on our own. As policymakers, we have a good perspective on the needs that the city faces. We’re less effective in knowing what all the answers to those challenges are. The best way for us to determine the answers to those challenges is by asking the private sector.
“The next generation of technology will happen in places like New York…dense urban environments, where technology can be brought to bear to solve the problems of everyday people.”
