USA Today: Biden, officials laud N.Y. photonics hub
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 10:09
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The new American Institute for Manufacturing (AIM) Photonics, announced officially Monday by Vice President Joe Biden, expects to hire about 100 scientists and other experts and get to work on a handful of research projects within about five months.
Michael Liehr, who most recently ran the computer chip foundry at the SUNY Poly Nanotech Complex in Albany and will be the Photonics center's CEO, said much of the work of AIM Photonics will be done at the complex in Albany and at the SUNY Polytechnic facility in Greece, where Biden made the announcement.
Biden, who was joined by Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the announcement, said that when he attended Syracuse University, he knew many students from the Rochester area who had relatives who worked at Eastman Kodak Co., Bausch + Lomb or Xerox Corp.
Bennett J. Loudon | July 27, 2015
