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MARK DIORIO / OBSERVER-DISPATCH
A New York state trooper barricades the entrance of a field offEatonville Road on Tuesday following the discovery of thebody of Little Falls resident Francis R. Nelson in Little Falls.Police hope to have autopsy results by this morning.
Little Falls man found dead
BY AMANDA [email protected]
LITTLE FALLS — A wind orna-ment of a wooden fish hanging fromthe porch at 132 Loomis St. twistedaimlessly in the light breeze Tues-day evening, a reminder of just howmuch Francis Nelson, 74, loved tofish.
Neighbor and longtime family
friend Scott Manley, of Court Lane,was shocked when he heard thenews that Nelson had been founddead earlier that day in a field offEatonville Road in thetown of Little Falls.
Nelson’s death isbeing considered sus-picious by state police.
“I thought Mick wasout fishing and gotsick,” Manley saidwhen he first heard ofNelson’s death, using the nicknamehe’d called Nelson since childhood.
Nelson was found at about 8:30a.m. outside his vehicle in a fieldthat a farmer was checking on, state
police said.The vehicle was turned off, and
the keys still were in the ignition,police said.
The road is located near the bor-der of the towns of Little Falls andHerkimer, where rolling hills andfields dominate the landscape. Windturbines can be seen in the distance.
Family members told police theylast spoke to Nelson at about 7 p.m.Monday.
“They became concerned andwere looking for him this morning,”state police Troop D Capt. MarkLincoln said.
Police hope to have autopsyresults available by today
450 more computer-chipjobs promised for MarcyBY ELIZABETH COOPER [email protected]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’sannouncement Tuesday of $4.4billion in investments in nan-otechnology projects in thestate could mean a massiveboost for initiatives already inthe works in the Mohawk Val-ley – and hundreds of new jobs.
Five major nanotechnologycompanies — IBM, Intel, GlobalFoundries, TSMC and Sam-sung — have chosen New Yorkover locations in Europe andthe Middle East to pool theirresources for a massive ven-ture that officials say will takenanotechnology to a new level.
For the Mohawk Valley, thatmeans 450 jobs are headed toSUNYIT — that’s in addition tothe 2009 promise of a $45 mil-lion facility at the college andmore than 400 accompanyingjobs.
Alain Kaloyeros, senior vicepresident and CEO of AlbanyCollege for Nanoscale Science
and Engineering, a key partnerin the initiative, said these 450jobs are in addition to the 475positions announced in 2009.
“This 450 that’s coming innow will certainly anchor theprior commitment of jobs,”Kaloyeros said.
SUNYIT’s role in developingnew technologies will be totake the research and proto-types created in Albany and tointegrate them into whateversystem they’re designed for.
In addition to the technologyjobs, Cuomo said 400 new con-struction jobs would be gener-ated.
Nanochips are the tiny com-puter chips that operate elec-tronic items ranging from cell-phones to complicated medicaldevices. Research and devel-opment in the field is so costlythat even major computer com-panies often prefer to cometogether to pay for facilities todo it.
Nano industrycould solidifySUNYIT’s identityBY DANIEL P. [email protected]
MARCY — News that an agreementbetween the state and a consortium ofcomputer-chip companies that couldbring 450 high-tech jobs to the area coulddefine SUNYIT going into the future.
“If you look at other colleges and uni-versities, everyone is known for some-thing,” SUNYIT spokesman John Swannsaid. “SUNYIT is a young institution.This kind of endeavor would put us onthe map.”
Tuesday’s announcement by Gov.Andrew Cuomo said the state had beatenout European, Asian and Middle Easterncities and secured more than $4 billionin investment from five companies: Intel,IBM, Global Foundries, TSMC and Sam-sung.
That commitment was secured by apromise from the state to invest $400 mil-lion in the SUNY College for Nanoscaleand Science Engineering in Albany, inwhich SUNYIT has a partnership.
Nelson
KATHLEEN DUNCAN / OBSERVER-DISPATCH
Students work Tuesday in pairs to calculate voltageon a diode at different currents during a computerengineering class at SUNYIT. This is one of the classesthat will be in the new Center for Advanced Technol-ogy, or CAT, building. TOP: An architectural render-ing depicts SUNYIT's technology complex, consistingof the CAT, left, and the Computer Chip Commercial-ization Center, right, joined by an atrium.
ON PAGE 3Aä Officials weigh in on nanotech agreement.ä Clinton hits stride in talking jobs.ä High-tech plans: the companies and jobs.
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