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• Movie Fridays: The Autumn Showdown

  … sizzling from a personal drama), who try to find some solace in life by enlisting as guinea pigs in a shifty research center, lulled by its head’s (Justin Theroux) siren-song promises of a miraculous cure to all of their problems. But the experiment doesn’t quite go as planned, and they end up in a whirlwind of vivid hallucinations that transcend time, place, and ev…

  05.10.2018

• Joel Rodrigues from Brazil’s National Institute of Telecommunications: on Internet of Things, Its Biggest Challenges and Goals

  …notable that new cars these days are made not by regular car manufacturers, but by their new, hi-tech counterparts. Google, Uber and Tesla are some of the ones behind the most promising prototypes, not the automotive giants that we know. Still, many of the existing well-known cases in IoT are, for the most part, made for industrial use and not for consumers... …

  05.10.2018

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018: World-Changing Inventions

  …icle manipulation is one of few of its kind that allow for a non-destructive capturing, displacement, and analysis of viruses and other cells It can’t be overemphasized how promising a technology optical tweezers are, especially given the established trend for miniaturization of devices. I think that we have all reasons to believe that in the very near future, opt…

  05.10.2018

• Staking on Unique: ITMO’s Startup Accelerator Revamps its Approach

  …e accelerator supports startups’ growth by drawing up bespoke business development plans in collaboration with the participating teams. The acceleration program’s experts help promising businesses expand and enter their goal markets faster and with more impact. Launched in April of 2015, the accelerator initially operated in a format traditional for its American a…

  04.10.2018

• Pension Reform and Inclusion of the Elderly: Changing Social Policy in Today’s Russia

  …cy in such a way that it would cater to the tasks at hand? For now, scientists can’t influence social institutions directly. Yet, the research tasks in this field look most promising. What’s more, they have become all the more relevant due to the recent pension reform that got off to a bad start. The first issue to be solved has to do with engagement: it is imp…

  03.10.2018

• ‘I Want to Create Something that Really Matters’: ITMO University’s First-Year Student On Developing Socially Significant Apps

  … will care about your gizmos?’ And this was because I was invited to a final round of ‘Junior’, a prestigious contest organized by the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute for promising school students. The rules of the contest stipulated that I had to be accompanied by an adult to attend. After much commotion, my dad managed to get some time off work to follow me to…

  02.10.2018

• Buy Groceries Like a Russian

  …y card can mean serious savings. Many grocery stores and supermarkets offer loyalty cards that are free or relatively inexpensive. They will give you access to daily or weekly promotions or sometimes let you buy items at everyday discounted prices. In St. Petersburg, my Okey and Lenta store cards often save me as much as 20 percent off the bill on average. …

  01.10.2018

• Founder of Surprise Me: Managing a Startup is Like Running in the Dark

  … for travelers. Each author has their own personal profile where they talk about themselves, their interests and favorite routes. We want to give the authors an opportunity to promote themselves and their products and increase their Surprise Me audience. All prices are set by the guides, but they often underestimate themselves, asking for the lowest wage possible,…

  28.09.2018

• Hot Air Balloons, Telescopes, and Sky Surfing: 2018 ‘Right Rudder!’ Youth Foresight Festival Takes Flight

  … The Russian Cosmic Society is another new partner who has recently joined the ‘Right Rudder!’ festival’s family and already became instrumental in expanding its agenda and promoting it to a wider audience. One of the numerous new events the Society had a hand in creating was an animation workshop given by a famous Sci-Fi writer and animator Gennady Tischenko. …

  27.09.2018

• ITMO Researchers Receive Grant to Create Urban Development Centers in Russia and Finland

  …Cross-Border Dimensions of Disruptive Information Technologies (CroBoDDIT) is a project that aims to promote breakthrough information technologies in order to develop urban infrastructures. It is implemented as part of the Russian-Finnish cross-border cooperation program and aligns with the Concept of long-term socio-economic development of Russia until 2020. The …

  27.09.2018