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Feb 25, 2025

Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus launches in Alexandria

Virginia Tech’s Walid Saad was used to traveling between the university’s locations in Arlington and Fairfax counties to meet students and teach classes. Saad, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, works at the intersection of wireless networking and artificial intelligence, including using quantum technology to bridge communication gaps between drones navigating complex environm[...]

Gov. Glenn Youngkin (center), Amazon executives and state and local leaders ceremonially cut the ribbon on Amazon's HQ2. Photo courtesy Amazon
Jun 15, 2023

Amazon HQ2 opens to high expectations

Let the tech wizardry begin: Amazon.com Inc. held the grand opening and ribbon cutting for the first phase of HQ2, the ecommerce goliath’s $2.5 billion East Coast headquarters in Arlington County, on Thursday. Dignitaries in attendance included Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Arlington County Board Chair Christian Dorsey, JBG Smith Properties Chief Development Officer Kai Reynolds, Clark […]

May 5, 2021

George Mason University approved to start school of computing

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia gave the green light to George Mason University’s plan to start a school of computing, the Fairfax-based university announced today. Three departments will comprise the core of the school, which will be the first of its kind in Virginia, the university said: statistics, computer science and information […]

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