Wikipedia:New Mexico Technology Corridor

The New Mexico Technology Corridor, sometimes referred to as the Rio Grande Tech/Research Corridor or the Middle Rio Grande Corridor,   is a high tech and innovation region in the US state of New Mexico.  With Albuquerque at its center, and hubs in Los Alamos to the north and Las Cruces to the south. The Albuquerque metropolitan area is the Technology Corridor's largest metro.

History
New Mexico's contributions to science and technology have become international standards for high tech and futures studies. It was in New Mexico that dwarf planet Pluto was first observed by Clyde Tombaugh, the first commercially successful personal computer called the Altair 8800 was created, and the industry standard cleanroom was developed.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, pioneer horticulture and biotechnology was at the core of research for Fabián García and Roy Nakayama as they developed methods to preserve the New Mexico chile pepper for future generations.

In the early 1930s, Robert H. Goddard developed the first liquid-propellant rocket in Roswell. Key parts of the Manhattan Project took place in New Mexico, referred to as Project Y including at White Sands Missile Range, under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Norris Bradbury.

Emerging technologies such as biotechnology, consumer spaceflight, as well as quantum computing and quantum dot science are major industries being developed in New Mexico.

Organizations
The Technology Corridor was helped in part by public university research from the University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, New Mexico Highlands University, Western New Mexico University, and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute. U.S. Department of Defense is heavily invested in New Mexico, with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories.

Major scientific and tech institutions that exist in the corridor are Intel's Fab 11X, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, Santa Fe Institute, Spaceport America, and Virgin Galactic. Microsoft was founded in Albuquerque, due to the presence of pioneer Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, and Microsoft continues to have a presence in the state.

Many professionals from the media in Albuquerque often have science and technology backgrounds, so they often have bleeding edge applications and techniques;  this is likewise true for science and art collectives like Explora and Meow Wolf.

The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History is located in Albuquerque, as is the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, both of which are affiliated with the Smithsonian Institute. Other important museums in New Mexico are the Museum of New Mexico, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, and New Mexico Museum of Space History to help archive, catalog, and preserve their collections.