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• Bloomberg Experts: Semantic Tech to Improve Financial Operations

• Aleksandra Kalashnikova: We Need to Reconsider PhD Students’ Status

  … we use funds from grants - a considerable part of them goes to PhD students' wages. I believe that such a system should be formalized and become a common rule. How do they solve the problem with PhD students in the Netherlands? They do as follows: most of the PhD positions are bound to particular grants. Such positions are stated in advance by the project head…

  23.08.2017

• TransformCity: The Amsterdam Approach to Urban Planning

  …and then a problem with office buildings emerged. In 2011, about 200 square meters of office space was left empty. The city administration had neither resources, nor ideas for solving these problems. "At that time, I lost my job as an architect, so I decided to contribute by solving this problem. I understood that it caused many ar…

  22.08.2017

• ITMO Students Take Part In Experimental Interaction Design Summer School

  … Experimental Interaction Design course, where they had the opportunity to design digital environments that would provide for a new level of digital literacy and help humanity solve another problem - this time, from the field of healthcare. During the first week, the students worked in teams to analyze the problems that have to do with modern lifestyle so as to ch…

  18.08.2017

• IEEE Award Winner Slobozhanyuk: “There Are No Stupid Questions in Science”

  …ivities. I actually think it’s beneficial – when you’re tired of something, you go and work on something else. And while you’re working on it, you might get an idea for how to solve a crucial problem in the other project. If I need to write an article and I have time for that – I’ll switch to that and when I tire of it I might switch to manual work: assemble somethin…

  16.08.2017

• The Night of Light: Gatchina Hosts International Light Art Festival

  …ilently among his court that's been frozen for hundreds of years. According to its authors' idea, he can't find rest, as he is trying to find an answer to some riddle he never solved. The event's climax was the Dream Sonata multimedia performance on the facade of the Gatchina Palace and a fireworks display above the White Lake. The light installations from …

  15.08.2017

• Gennady Korotkevich Wins Google Code Jam Fourth Time in a Row

  …ich, as the winner of the previous year’s competition, didn’t have to participate in the qualifying rounds. The competition is organized in such a way that the participants solve problems made of two parts: a small input and a large input. The small input is usually easier, as a less complicated algorithm is required and there are less constraints. As soon as the …

  14.08.2017

• DemoDay: Projects from MIT Global Startup Labs and SumIT Startup School

  …ts/instructors traveling to Africa to teach technology and promote development in African schools, so as to expose students to appropriate technologies that would help them to solve local problems and take advantage of local opportunities. In 2000, the pilot project, called AITI (Africa Internet Technology Initiative), was launched in Kenya. In 2011 the name was c…

  11.08.2017

• Dmitriy Andrianov: We've Lost Our Opportunity To Develop IT-Outsourcing Industry

  …nvited me to work at DataArt. At that time, I wasn't sure whether changing my job was a good thing to do, but the pay at DataArt was two times higher. For my new job, I had to solve totally different tasks. DataFont was a production company, and DataArt focused on service, though I didn't know it then; hence, I had to learn a lot. For instance, I never worked with Un…

  11.08.2017

• RoboCup-2017: ITMO School Team Gets Novice Award

  …ent objects. It uses the SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) algorithm system to define obstacles, and recognizes the object it has to move with machine vision. To solve the tournament's tasks, the team used the YouBot mobile platform with a manipulator by KUKA (a german industrial robots manufacturer). During the preparation stage, the robot was heavily …

  10.08.2017