Three decades later, LIHTI still lighting biomed’s fuse
By TOM MARINER // Early in 2012, Marc Alessi – an attorney who had served three terms in the New York State Assembly – followed his entrepreneurial brain and founded…
SynchroPET
At BNL, an energetic history of medical innovation
By TOM MARINER // Upton-based Brookhaven National Laboratory is a national treasure operating at the forefront of energy science – but it’s also made profound contributions to medical sciences. One…
Old friend takes the reins as Accelerate LI retools
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Can’t Keep a Good Commercialization Organization Down file comes Accelerate Long Island, which is charging forward with new leadership and a new business-building mission….
To their credit, they enabled modern card transactions
By TOM MARINER // Today, it couldn’t be easier: Wheel your cart to the checkout, stick your debit card into the reader, punch in your PIN and done. The merchant…
Risking life, and a clean record, for a better detector
By TOM MARINER // As I stepped from the airplane directly onto the runway, I remember thinking that the door sill was eight feet higher when I boarded. A silver-suited…
No. 614: In which chips fall, champagne flows, Molloy shines and the NFL comes to Nassau Community College
Cool runnings: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we enjoy a remarkably mild stretch of summertime weather, but nonetheless sweat out another week of red-hot innovation. Young at heart:…
Despite innovations, LI wasn’t always a biotech hotbed
By TOM MARINER // Long Island is recognized as a burgeoning biotech corridor now, though its past biotech efforts “flied under the radar” – despite the region giving birth to…
When videogame history called, Player One was ready
By TOM MARINER // Videogame sales are a $179 billion industry these days, more revenue than the global movie ($100 billion) and North American sports ($75 billion) industries combined. Names…
Game on: From entrepreneur to Emmy to world’s best
By TOM MARINER // Those “closed captioning” sentences that scroll across your screen, and on screens around the world – they mostly come from a firm called EEG Enterprises, based…
When the laser wars raged across Long Island
By TOM MARINER // Lasers are everywhere: medicine, communications, pointers, Hollywood ray guns. “LASER,” of course, is an acronym for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation,” coined by Gordon…
Why Harry S. Truman was the ultimate COO
By TOM MARINER // Last week, I visited the 4-mile-wide dot called Key West at the end of the giant fishhook chain of islands hanging from the bottom of Florida….
Sound investments, on an Island filled with Wonder
By TOM MARINER // A “blast from the past” from your most recent newsletter: A few years after Ray Kurzweil introduced the first Reading Machine, he cranked out his first…
Debrief: Innovations past and future, with Marc Alessi
Arguably the hardest-working man in Long Island innovation, former New York State Assemblyman Marc Alessi enjoys a singular socioeconomic viewpoint. The entrepreneur and champion of 5G connectivity has had…
No. 406: Building Bridgeworks, accentuating AI, big bucks in Bethpage – and only Applied DNA could go to China
Finish line: The end of another busy workweek is upon is, dear readers, and the start of another well-earned weekend. It’s May 17 out there, and if you had…
No. 265: Santa snickers, the Manufacturing Task Force Awakens and the Golden Globes go to…
Gut Yontiff: “Good holiday,” for our non-Yiddish speaking readers, and a Happy Hanukkah to all. Adam Sandler’s “eight crazy nights” – the Jewish Festival of Lights commemorating the rededication of…