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• Rusnano Head Chubais: Five New Nanotech Clusters in Russia by 2027

  …o” recently sold their shares in the company with an IRR of more than 26%. “There are others game-changing companies, too. The “Novomet-Perm” company is a classic success story: they produce and operate submersible mining equipment for oil industry. They have a 3% share of the world market and large companies, including several Russian ones and the well-known Ha…

  05.06.2017

• ScienceFest, Day 2: Phygital Technologies And The New Approach To Museums

  …echnorama center - is constructed from several thousands of mirror plates that oscillate depending on the air flow so one can observe the wind’s dynamics. To combine both history and modernity - this is what museums aspire to achieve, and this has to do with not just their outer appearances. Today, along with classical exhibits, hi-end technologies are also used i…

  31.05.2017

• Clothing Made From Bacteria, Electronic Tattoos, And Latest Virus Threats: What We’ve Learned at the Campus Festival

  …ngous: almost everything can be traced - from the force applied to a key on one's keyboard to the movement of one's eyes when browsing, not to mention such things as browser history and such. Another important issue is that given that one can forecast another's actions and behavior, it becomes easy to manipulate such a person. This is why, according to Evgeniy Cheres…

  30.05.2017

• Digitally Immortalized: How the Solovetsky Monastery is Finding a New Life in Virtual Reality

  …s why ITMO University’s expert group, who are currently working on the virtualization of the monastery, have chosen that period as the setting for their virtual model. “History is the foundation of our future development. What’s important right now is that we use modern multimedia and VR technologies to their full capacity to provide access to historic knowledge…

  30.05.2017

• Find Your Piece in the St. Petersburg City Day Puzzle

  …been planted on an area of about two square kilometers. If you decide to take some rest from the citywide celebration, this is a place you should definitely check it out! History Piece: Medieval Festival & the Alexander Nevsky Cup If peace and calm is not your idea of fun, try out the Medieval Festival at the Peter and Paul’s fortress. Hundreds of fans of histo…

  26.05.2017

• “White Night of Technology”: How to Ensure Cybersecurity and Teach Neural Networks to See

  …nd the globe. It encrypted files on the infected machines and demanded 300 dollars’ worth in bitcoin for ransom. The attack has been estimated to be one of the biggest in history. Companies are still evaluating their losses. The analytics company KnowBe4 that specializes in cybersecurity has estimated the loss at a billion dollars. This includes the losses incurre…

  26.05.2017

• Volunteering Unlimited: Students from Russia's 35 Regions Presented Their Projects in Yagodnoe

• Why Google Loves Kotlin and Who Needs 2000 Programming Languages

  …ly 6% in popularity. Still, TIOBE shows that C was the number one language up to 2002 when it was replaced by Java, which was only 14-th in 1997. A notable lecture on the history of language development can be seen here: Mikhail Gustokashin, director of Centre of Student Competitions at the Higher School of Economics, tells his audience about the development hi

  25.05.2017

• We're the Champions! ITMO Programmers Set Record with 7th Win at ACM ICPC

• i-Customs: Wieslaw Czyzowicz On Shifts in Customs Legislation Paradigms

  …nts that allow solving any of the emerging problems. Customs law is one of them. In customs affairs, like any other field, the paradigms have been changing throughout the history. Earlier on, customs legislation was aimed at getting income from taxes. In a sense, this is still true for many countries. Most focus on taxes on imports, yet in some countries, Russia, …

  24.05.2017