GE Global Research

GE Global Research is the research and development division of General Electric.^[1] GE Global Research's primary facility is located in Niskayuna, New York. The Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center (AMSTC) is a satellite facility located in Van Buren, Michigan.^[2] GEGR is developing an Oil & Gas Technology Center in Oklahoma City, which focuses on developing technologies to improve the energy, power, and water industries.^[3]^[4] GE Digital, located in San Ramon (California), was started in 2011 to focus corporate efforts on software development,^[5] and has since evolved into a separate business unit.^[6] Outside the USA, GE Global Research includes laboratories in Bangalore (India), Shanghai (China), Munich (Germany), Tirat Carmel (Israel), and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

Notable employees

Researchers at GE Global Research include:

Ralph Alpher, cosmologist
William David Coolidge, physicist
Ivar Giaever, Nobel Laureate, physicist
Irving Langmuir, Nobel Laureate, chemist and physicist
David Musser, computer scientist
James Rumbaugh, computer scientist
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, mathematician and electrical engineer
Alexander Stepanov, computer scientist
Willis Rodney Whitney, chemist
Christopher J. Hardy, industrial physicist

References

↑ Terdiman, Daniel (August 11, 2010). "Behind the scenes at GE Global Research". Cnet. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
↑ Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center (AMSTC)
↑ "Construction progressing at GE’s newest research center, the Oil & Gas Technology Center in Oklahoma City".
↑ "GE research center progress becoming more prominent", Oklahoman, 8 July 2015, retrieved 27 Feb 2016
↑ Power, Brad (29 Jan 2015), "Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE", Harvard Business Review (Watertown, MA: Harvard Business Publishing), retrieved 27 Feb 2016
↑ Dignan, Larry (14 Sep 2015), "GE forms GE Digital, aims to be top 10 software company", ZD Net (CBS Interactive), retrieved 27 Feb 2016

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People

Founders	Charles A. Coffin Thomas Edison Edwin J. Houston Elihu Thomson

Other	James Cash, Jr. Ann Fudge Susan Hockfield Jeffrey R. Immelt Andrea Jung Rochelle Lazarus Sam Nunn Roger Penske Douglas A. Warner III Jack Welch Bob Wright

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Other

¹Now integrated into other GE divisions or business groupings
²Sold or spun off

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