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• HackUniversity: Create, Think, and Simply Have a Good Time

  …The National University MegaHackathon HackUniversity is a large-scale competition for students from all over Russia. Over the course of 48 hours, four-person teams solve cases for actual companies, the list of which includes MTS, BIOCAD, RighTech, Unilever, and Here. The companies provide students with tasks in fields that are crucial to contemporary businesses: Big …

  22.04.2019

• Semantic Hub Founder Vitaly Nedelskiy: 90% of Startups Fail Because Nobody Needs Their Product

  …ings them profit. It shouldn’t be something abstract. 90% of all startups fail because nobody needs their product. First, you need to understand which problem you’re trying to solve, how people deal with it today, and how much it costs them. There’s a really great book on this topic, written by Rob Fitzpatrick, and it’s called “The Mom Test: How to Talk to Custome…

  19.04.2019

• ITMO University Hosts Final Round of NTI Competition for University Students

  … According to Irina Deeva, an engineer at ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies and a PhD student at the Institute of Design & Urban Studies, apart from solving tasks and presenting the results of their work to the jury, the competition’s participants had an opportunity to attend a series of workshops and lectures. Among the lecturers were Alex…

  19.04.2019

• Behavioral Economics: Why Humans Aren’t Made to Be Rational

  …don’t use our knowledge The letters WYSIATI stand for “What You See Is All There Is”. When examining a problem, people tend not to apply their earlier-acquired knowledge to solve it. Attempting to remember something we already know can sometimes require an enormous amount of effort. In a classic experiment on this topic, the subjects are asked to read a text de…

  17.04.2019

• 8th Congress of Young Scientists: Genetic Algorithms, Robotic Intelligence and Struggle Against Infections

  …t could adjust its aiming and the number of the degrees of freedom which made it possible to adapt to the form of the objects it manipulated. On the next stage, the developers solved the issues of sensing. For particular reasons, it is impossible to increase the number of physical sensors in order to attain human-like abilities, so physical sensors were replaced by s…

  16.04.2019

• ITMO Graduate on Britain's IT Market, Hedge Funds and Working in the Field of Financial Technologies

  …vational letter. Then you have to do some tests: on logical thinking, knowledge of mathematics and the English language. This stage is quite easy, as you can prepare for it by solving sample tests in advance. The second stage is a phone interview. One or two of the company’s employees can call you, and you’ll have to tell them why you got interested in this partic…

  15.04.2019

• Presidential Grant Recipients On Their Award-Winning Research

  …ere’s hope that they will make it possible to make a breakthrough in the field of solar power and decrease the costs of alternative energy. For this purpose, we have to solve several tasks. The key ones have to do with increasing the efficiency of solar cells, improving their stability, and decreasing their cost. Our project focuses on all these aspects. First…

  15.04.2019

• Business Model Canvas: Visualizing Your Business Ideas

  … their strengths and weaknesses. In its essence, the method, which was invented by the Swiss business analyst Alexander Osterwalder, can be presented as a common algorithm for solving the smorgasbord of single-type tasks involved in the creation of business models. The model consists of nine blocks, which can be divided into four larger groups: Infrastructure, Off…

  12.04.2019

• German Week in St. Petersburg: Experts Discuss Science Communication and the Social Mission of Modern Science

  …rrently accounts for 20% of the organization’s budget. CERN’s primary purpose, of course, is to conduct research: accelerate and collide particles, observe the results, and solve the mysteries of the Universe. But it also has other, non-research-related tasks. First, it represents fundamental science on the international scale. The organization is funded entirely …

  11.04.2019

• Pop Goes the Bubble: A Quick Guide to Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and ICOs

  … is processed by different parts of the network, both transactions may be received, and the same funds will end up being used twice. Bitcoin’s biggest innovation is that it solved that problem by using blockchain technology to prevent double-spending. How does blockchain work? Blockchain contains the history of all transactions ever made in the Bitcoin netwo…

  10.04.2019