About CEWIT
With over 70 associated faculty members, 190 PhD and 180 Master students engaged in 15,000 square feet of active R&D laboratory space, Stony Brook's Center of Excellence in Wireless & Information Technology is a next generation research and educational facility. Our new building now under construction, will be completed by September, 2008. It will give us 100,000 square feet of additional lab space.
Over the past decade, Information Technology has been responsible for one-third of the growth of the entire U.S. economy with revenues nearing $200 billion. As a result, IT jobs have grown by more than half a million nationally and, it should be noted, are 75 percent better paying than the average private sector wage during the same period.
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As information technology was carving a broad global niche, Long Island was emerging as a leading worldwide center for information technology in the U.S. To best capitalize on this advantage, spur economic growth, advance scientific research and develop the technologies of tomorrow, the Center of Excellence In Wireless and Information Technology was created in 2003. Also known as CEWIT, the Center is a next generation research and educational facility whose vision is four-fold: become recognized as a world leader in wireless and IT, conduct first-class interdisciplinary research in the emerging, critical technologies of the information age, address the skilled technology worker shortage, and foster new enterprise development.
Now in its fourth year, the center has over 70 associated faculty members, 190 Ph.D. and 180 MS students engaged in research at the Center. The Center has obtained more than twelve patents in just the last two years. The construction of a CEWIT building at the Stony Brook University Research and Development Park is slated for completion in August, 2008. This state of the art, 100,000 square foot building will house facilities for new and expanded research and educational programs, far beyond the 15,000 square feet of laboratory space currently devoted to R&D and commercialization projects.
Over the last four years, the Center has worked hard to build strategic alliances and business partnerships among the academic, scientific, and business communities. Our partners include some of the world’s best known and most sophisticated giants of wireless and information technology including IBM and Cisco Systems. We are also developing relationships with other leading universities and research institutions. Long Island is home to more than two thousand information technology companies, world renowned scientific institutions, and has produced significant technical advances over the last century. The Center is building on these past achievements and has lay the foundation for R&D partnerships with its partners and sponsors. Please click here to view our partners.
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CEWIT has established New York as a national leader in these technologies. CEWIT is an unparalleled resource, advancing the science and technology underlying the next epoch of the information revolution. Guided by innovative industrial partnerships, the programs not only address science and technology issues, but culminate in the transfer to commercial applications, resulting in increased employment through established ventures and the creation of new enterprises within the State.