The Stony Brook University Research and Development Park is a
research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, and improving existi ...
park located in
Stony Brook, New York
Stony Brook is a political subdivisions of New York#Hamlet, hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Administrative divisions of New York#Town, Town of Brookhaven, New York, Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the No ...
owned by
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...
, which acquired the land through
eminent domain
Eminent domain (United States, Philippines), land acquisition (India, Malaysia, Singapore), compulsory purchase/acquisition (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, United Kingdom), resumption (Hong Kong, Uganda), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Austr ...
in 2005. The park is located a mile from the center of campus along Stony Brook Road on an area spanning over 240 acres in size.
Overview
The land was originally owned by
St. James Gyrodyne Company of America
Gyrodyne Company of America, Inc. is a real estate investment trust that owns, leases, and manages commercial properties along the Eastern Coast of the United States.
Gyrodyne's headquarters are located in Saint James, New York, in Eastern Long ...
and acquired by the university in a controversial eminent domain case in which the courts decided against the state's $26 million appraisal in support of the owner's $126 million valuation and later denied the state's request for appeal. The state ended up paying $167.5 million in a lawsuit settlement in 2012
The Park
Center for Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT)
CEWIT opened in March 2009 with over 100,000 square feet of laboratory space.
The center has over 70 associated faculty members, 190 Ph.D. and 180 MS students engaged in research at the center and obtained more than twelve patents in just the last two years. CEWIT has established partnerships with IT companies including giants like
IBM and
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develo ...
and formed partnerships with other leading research institutions.
Research areas include:
The Center's research areas are diverse and cover distributed robotics, expressive and hybrid networks, mobile computing, wireless networks, cyber security, computer vision and image processing, RF systems, microwave sensors, wireless sensor networks, computational genetics and protein docking, computational neurobiology, virtual reality, effective bandwidth utilization, wireless protocols, wireless ad hoc networks and wireless gateways.Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology - Research Areas
Advanced Energy Center
Innovation and Discovery Center
References
{{The State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook University