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Rusnano Head Chubais: Five New Nanotech Clusters in Russia by 2027
…The head of “Rusnano” began his talk by explaining to the audience that the company’s purpose is commercialization of nanotech inventions and developing them into full-fledged enterprises. “Rusnano” does not invest in R&D, but instead acts as a financial co-investor for projects that have a substantial economic potential. As per Anatoly Chubais’s words, all those …
05.06.2017
Vladimir Putin Congratulates ITMO's Programmers on Winning ACM ICPC
…hampions with their recent victory at ACM ICPC. “Our country’s specialists don’t just offer the best and unique software solutions – they create a whole new field of knowledge; an environment for development of economy and life. To further increase our professional and technological advantages in digital economy, we intend to focus our work on the fields that ar…
02.06.2017
ITMO University Expands Partnership in Technology Entrepreneurship with Krasnoyarsk Krai
… purpose, we will surely unite our efforts to maximize the effectiveness with which we will solve the tasks currently faced by the Krai. We will be very glad to share our knowledge in innovative system development and change management in which ITMO University has a lot of experience,” – says Nina Yanykina. The next stage in the collaboration between ITMO Univer…
01.06.2017
Student Construction Bureau: Programming Robots For Industry 4.0
Clean Slate: How to Fight Illegal Ads Through Blogging and Make Graffiti a Form of Fine Art
…graffiti is to cultivate a gradual change in the public’s attitude towards this art form, which is often seen as borderline criminal. According to the team, most people’s knowledge of graffiti is extremely limited, which is why most simply don’t understand it and treat it with hostility. Popularization of graffiti as an art form, according to the proposal, should occ…
31.05.2017
ITMO and Newtonew Announce Winners of First “Physics: the Game of Light” Online Contest
…es such as Ekaterinburg, Volgograd, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Perm and Nizhny Novgorod and other, smaller, localities. The highschoolers didn’t need to be onsite to test their knowledge of physics. The main feature of “Game of Light” is that it’s completely on-line. To take part in the contest all the players needed to do was to authorize themselves on the game’s website …
31.05.2017
Clothing Made From Bacteria, Electronic Tattoos, And Latest Virus Threats: What We’ve Learned at the Campus Festival
…at can connect to smartphones are already seen as something common. Yet the range of opportunities constantly increases, and developers now aim to create some kind of a full-fledged autonomous life-support system. There are already projects on monitoring air condition; for instance, the Wearable clean air concept where the fabric absorbs polluted air and releases cle…
30.05.2017
Digitally Immortalized: How the Solovetsky Monastery is Finding a New Life in Virtual Reality
…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 to experts and anyone curious about history. In order to accomplish this, international associations and projects are formed these days that try to solve the issues related to digital pres…
30.05.2017
Campus Festival: How to Learn About Science at a Bar
…ducate people on science in an easily accessible format outside of university walls. As part of the festival, any place can become a platform where anyone can acquire new knowledge and meet interesting people. At “Bakalavriat” bar on Mayakovskogo St., one could find out about the structure of a laser and consider the prospects for development of St. Petersburg’s i…
29.05.2017
Foresight Fleet 2017: St. Petersburg Is To Become A Global Construction Bureau
…the challenges of modern society and economics), its nature as a new platform (the city as an environment and platform that provides for generation and transfer of global knowledge, the participants' self-fulfillment and increment of human resources), and anthropocentric nature (the city as the center for attracting new talents and turning them into citizens). And la…
27.05.2017