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• Online Creativity: Crowdsourcing Services to Help Business

  …m appears because if, for example, a company consists of at least 100 people it cannot involve all staff members in brainstorms and meetings at the same time. Currently one solves this problem using crowdsourcing services. These online platforms help to find needed solutions and ideas from employees, clients and even volunteers. One of the most successful crowdsou…

  12.08.2016

• Optics Used for Measuring Blood Velocity

  …oth of these methods have considerable drawbacks. Using the water basin does not provide enough accuracy, and the special tubes are too expensive to regularly replace them. To solve this problem, the VISmart company proposed to assess the change in the limb's volume with optical methods. "Our solution introduces a system of LED lasers and light-sensitive ele…

  10.08.2016

• Ready to Move: Young Coders Share their Career Experience

  …y and before that in a small startup company. Machine Learning Works’ offer was very attractive and after clarifying several details I moved. All skills that I had were enough solve all tasks at a job interview. Then when I started working I needed some extra knowledge connected with SRE such as secure system operating and expertizes of database internals. The com…

  10.08.2016

• Joining Big Science: How PCs Help Large-Scale Projects

  …An idea to use personal computers for solving resource-intensive tasks without involving their users came first in the mid 1900-s. One of the first projects was Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) launched in 1996. It attracted thousands people but back then another initiative brought fame to collaborative projects for volunteers. Its’ authors used a popular…

  09.08.2016

• Drones at Work: Delivering Pizza, Searching for the Lost... and Dismembering Snowmen

  …he predefined map (GoogleMap, for instance). Still, different disturbances can significantly decrease the positioning's accurancy. Different color or radio tags can be used to solve this problem: for instance, the relays of the mobile service operators. The simultaneous use of these methods would allow to considerably increase the accuracy", - explained Alexander Shc…

  08.08.2016

• Life-hacks for Studying Abroad: Students Share their Advices

  … will take time for the documents to get to your university, about several months - long past the end-of-the-semester exams in both universities. Thus, you have to be ready to solve these problems as soon as you get back. Elena Enyushina studied in ESIEE Paris (France).  Surely, we all want everything to go smoothly. It's even better if we don't have to do …

  08.08.2016

• Big City Traffic Made Effective: from Paid Parking to Life-Hacks

  …int of transport simulations within the context of social sciences? Transport is not always about engineering solutions. In a sense, it's an attempt to find an ideal method to solve society's problems. Expensive solutions are not necessarily the working ones. What we have to do is to bring maximum benefit at minimum costs. There is a project of a highway along the…

  05.08.2016

• “Yagodnoe” SportsCamp: Social Projects and Activities for International Students

  …lueberry, bake pies and share them with those in need. Furthermore, they will be given a task to identify different ecological problems of Yagodnoe and propose the methods for solving them. After the lectures and meetings students will go outside to take part in territory and ecological improvement. Usually volunteers help old people fix fences around their ho…

  03.08.2016

• Bioinformatics Summer School: Where Tech and Biology Come Together

  …ol gave students an opportunity to learn about the latest news in the field of bioinformatics, to get acquainted with research methods in this area, to obtain basic skills for solving practical problems in medicine and biology. This event is the largest of its kind in Russia and was attended by young scientists not only from Russia but also from neighboring countr…

  03.08.2016

• Brain Fitness Games: Can Intelligence Really be Boosted?

  …nd visuospatial orientation skills and attention using online courses. Although they’ve shown an improvement in these cognitive skills, there was no effect on their ability to solve other tasks, even those similar to the ones used in the abovementioned online courses. What is more, some scientists note that there is the “fire-drawer effect” to these studies – …

  02.08.2016