The Center for Technology & Innovation is an all-volunteer non-profit organization registered with the IRS since 1996.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Center for Technology & Innovation (Center) is to document and present in context the inventions and industrial innovations of New York's Southern Tier.

Board Members

Erik Antonsson, Street Scope, Inc., Pasadena, CA
Frank Cardullo, Watson College of Engineering, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
Farouk El-Baz, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, Boston, MA (retired)
Frank Hughes, Tietronix Software, Inc., Houston, TX (retired)
Mark Kriebel, Arranged Sound, Inc., Johnson City, NY (retired) - acting Board Secretary/Treasurer
Kenneth Mansfield, SUNY Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY
Emily V. Wade, Wade Institute for Science Education, Quincy, MA
C. Roger Westgate, Dean Emeritus, Watson College of Engineering,
Binghamton University, Pittsburgh, PA - Board President

TechWorks!

Development of TechWorks! is a Center initiative to showcase central New York State technology in action - an effort that begins from the inside out. Significant progress is being made collecting and revitalizing icons of 20th & 21st century US technology in the Hall of Ones and Zeroes, the Vintage IBM Computing Center - including the only operational IBM 1401 mainframe on public display world-wide, and the Link Simulation Workshop - including the Apollo Lunar Module Simulator, on long-term restoration and display loan from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

The 30,000 sf vintage brick ice cream factory will be renovated with new additions of the South Entrance Energy Exhibit demonstrating emerging technologies, a rooftop River View Terrace, and the Garden of Ideas, a sculpture park in the forecourt.

TechWorks! is located in the vintage Binghamton Ice Cream Company factory, built in 1912, expanded in 1946 and 1972, on the waterfront in downtown Binghamton, at 321 Water Street, Binghamton, two blocks north of the Lost Dog Cafe and Doubletree Hilton Hotel, and just north of two historic railroad trestles. Look for the colorful flood wall mural - Four Seasons Along the Chenango - by JoAnne Arnold (2015).