Productivity drive at RPI from Apollo roots to future
George Low, former Apollo program director and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, urges boosting U S productivity through industrial innovation. At RPI he pushes computer aided design, a Manufacturing Productivity Center, and student hands on work with composites to modernize industry and reverse American decline.
Technology fair fuels old town revival in 1979 Troy
America in Troy is celebrated as Frederick notes the city’s rail heritage and new high tech ventures. Steve Derby works with a computer graphics terminal as students in a mechanics class boost test scores after a field trip to the graphics center. Derby plans a PhD and has sold part of his computer program for a robot arm. He anticipates selling the rest to a company.
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