The contest between China and the U.S. for 21st century technological supremacy is not just a mano-a-mano bout pitting Xi Jinping against Donald Trump. The state of New York also wants in on the fight.
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Alain Kaloyeros arrived at the State University of New York at Albany in 1988 with a PhD in condensed matter physics and dreams of building a high-tech “acropolis.”
But Kaloyeros, who had been born to a Greek father and Lebanese mother in Beirut, quickly learned it would be difficult to realize his ambition without outside support. UAlbany was not MIT or Caltech; it could not achieve national renown by hiring prominent, and expensive, faculty to develop labs. “I realized that you need B
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