Three days after Stanford withdrew, the city awarded the contract to Cornell University and its junior partner, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the oldest university in Israel.

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"Alerts about a downstream risk of cholera could have been issued nearly a year in advance, " wrote researchers Eric Horvitz, director of Microsoft Research, and Kira Radinsky, PhD student at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

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The leadership of the Bloomberg administration in attracting university investment (Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) for the development of Roosevelt Island was a brilliant move for the city.

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