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Empire State of Mind Part 2 - Mark Buckley and Meghan Cook

Posted on Podcast by Louis Zacharilla · November 27, 2019 12:28 PM · 1 reaction


In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla interviews Rochester's Mark Buckley and the Center for Technology in Government's Meghan Cook about New York - the state, not the city - and intelligent community development.

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With Farm Robotics, the Cows Decide When It’s Milking Time

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · April 24, 2014 6:07 PM · 1 reaction

Something strange is happening at farms in upstate New York. The cows are milking themselves.

Desperate for reliable labor and buoyed by soaring prices, dairy operations across the state are charging into a brave new world of udder care: robotic milkers, which feed and milk cow after cow without the help of a single farmhand.

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The Tech Farm Brings Innovation to the Fields

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · December 31, 2013 7:12 PM · 1 reaction

techfarm.gifThe Technology Farm is an incubator located in a 72-acre apple orchard in Geneva, New York. It is a nonprofit joint venture among Cornell University, the city of Geneva and the State of New York, which aims to create, retain and expand technology-based businesses focusing on agriculture and foodstuffs. Opening with 3 tenants and one lab in 2005, it now is home to 10 emerging businesses operating in two labs and four production facilities. It represents a successful effort to translate that university-business dynamic, which has powered the success of places from Taipei and Sophia Antipolis to Cambridge and Silicon Valley, into a rural economy. Startups and incubators are part of the charisma of these places, and the Tech Farm has transplanted them to a setting of rural beauty and fecundity.

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