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LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR TIMOTHY MURRAY: The computing center is part of our effort to make Holyoke
the center of innovation here in western Mass. Last year we awarded $2.2 million in a MassWorks
Infrastructure grant to grant the city support for the construction of the Holyoke Community
College foundation business and Technology Park.
ROBERT CARET PRESIDENT OF UMASS SYSTEM: It’s also the first project – first computing
center of its type in the country. One that is green in many ways, low cost in many ways,
is in a gateway city and can help revitalize the city and the region. To hear the Governor
on many occasions mention this project as the kind of collaboration that he would like
to see, not just among this group of institutions but all of the institutions in Massachusetts
to leverage each other and to do things more effectively together.
SUSAN HOCKFIELD FORMER PRESIDENT OF MIT: It would make sense we thought if we could use
something like a high performance computing center to build the kind of educational collaboration
so that in K-12 and community colleges we could be preparing people who would work for
IT industry.
GOVERNOR PATRICK: We imagined collaborations that are uncommon here in the Commonwealth
as any number of the speakers have said, and people right here on the ground in western
Massachusetts who are looking for their own symbol that we as a Commonwealth imagined
a better future for Holyoke as well.