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Kodak, the 131-year-old photography pioneer, filed for bankruptcy on January 19th 2012.Eastman Kodak announced early this morning that filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy was “the right thing to do for the future” of the company.In a statement, Kodak CEO Antonio Perez said company leadership decided the move was “a necessary step.”Innovation Trail has followed the story over the course of 2012.

Fracking back on the agenda, and launch of new center to develop human/computer communication

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Good Morning and welcome to the Morning Trail Mix.

It's back to business on fracking after the intervention of Sandy. Organizers predict more than 500 local elected officials from 61 counties opposed to hydrofracking in New York will converge on Albany today to highlight what they describe as the negative impacts of fracking from across the border in Pennsylvania.

Residents in Watertown are pushing for the DEC to conduct a study of the health impact of the former New York Air Brake industrial site, reports the Innovation Trail's Joanna Richards for North Country Public Radio.

Education

Maybe one of the reason's for the opening of the Center for Cognition, Communication and Culture at the Rensselear Polytechnic Institute today, is because our relationship to Artificial Intelligence is still in its early stages. (Delaney/WRVO)

Jobs

UBuffalo hosted an event encouraging its students to consider careers in space-related fields. (Chris Caya/WBFO)

Business

The 19 acre former campus for the GM Fuel Cell Research Facility at Honeoye Falls is on the market for sale or lease. (RBJ)

As reported yesterday, Kodak seems to have lined up some financing for its reemergence as a commercial printing company.

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