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Made in Russia: Bad Brand or Unexplored Potential?
…d, reconfiguration, involves the selection of a previously insignificant practice and its promotion as a positive and especially valuable one. It is developed first among a specific group, then among the entire society. One example of reconfiguration is the women’s rights movement. Unlike the Kennedy example, the feminist movement never had a well-defined project tha…
17.06.2019
“Innovative Entrepreneurship” Master’s Program: Starting Your Business at ITMO University
…ost? And how do you solve this issue at the new program? Back to the topic of competencies, one of the key aspects that many entrepreneurs have problems with is industry-specific regulation. For some reason, most think something like: “I’ve come up with a great business model, and now we’ll quickly introduce it and get our first million”. Then, they start working …
07.06.2019
ITMO University Partners Up With Rostelecom to Develop Unique Quantum-Encrypted Data Network
… is that there are a multitude of ways one can obtain them illegally, be it stealing, buying or overhearing. That is why the tenacity of the encryption system based on that specific key is often put at risk. Quantum encryption provides a solution to this problem; with it, the keys no longer have to be handed over in envelopes, vaults or with security guards. Quantum …
07.06.2019
ITMO Students Win Competition of 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation
…otics competitions such as AI Driving Olympics and Mile of Technology (you can read about the latter here) demonstrate the effectiveness of using machine learning and AI in specific hardware solutions. The winners of the ICRA competition will serve as experts and help to create and organize different elements of the new educational programs, and will maybe even devel…
05.06.2019
Education For Everyone: Global Experts Discuss Future of Open Education
…e participants, notes Yulia Romanenko. Their task was to develop the recommendations in such a way that they would not be in conflict with the national policies and laws of specific countries. They also expanded the list of recommendations with those that were relevant to individual countries. “We were provided with a draft of the Recommendation, which is the re…
05.06.2019
How Cerevrum Inc Uses VR to Boost Social Skills
…ploys them what kind of money they’ll be making for the employer, and neither can the company. Our training process makes that possible. Once a person has learned something specific (like knowing how to sell a certain type of product), they can do something better, and we can calculate the benefit of that. For example, an employee may have learned a script and improv…
04.06.2019
Participants and Organizers on New Russian-German Exchange Program
…ake place in August. The organizers hope to continue developing the program. Among their plans are collaborations with youth centers in Poland, but there’s yet to be any specific information in this regard. You can follow the news and updates on the program in Yagodnoe’s official community on VK (in Russian).…
04.06.2019
Konstantin Zaytsev, One of Top-5 Young Russian Scientists in Systems Biology, on Systems Biology in Russia
…urn to their laboratories and conduct experiments in order to validate them. In a sense, systems biology is similar to machine learning: it is most useful when it solves specific tasks of some particular field. In all interdisciplinary fields, the issue of understanding specialists from other areas is ever relevant. How is this problem solved in the field of sy…
31.05.2019
InnoCamp: How Russian and Finnish Students Reinvent Old Spaces
… go there to take some pictures and speak to the project’s curator. This helped us understand the potential of that location. Each of our team members was responsible for a specific function: design, marketing, finances, and overall concept. During the remote stage, we tried to learn as much as we could about the citizens of Helsinki and similar locations in Finland.…
31.05.2019
ITMO University Partners with Art&Science Day Skolkovo
…innovations as a promising art method, focusing on technological art related to the field of hi-tech (including big data, machine learning, robotics, bio) and analyzing the specifics of working with hi-tech forms as an artist. According to Anastasiia Yarmosh, the team made special effort to bring together in dialogue the representatives of polar fields: researcher…
29.05.2019