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• VK Hackathon 2018 Winners Make Donating Blood Easier

  …lancer, too. Why did you decide to take part in the hackathon? Did you have such an experience before? Grigoriy Frantsuzov: It was me who came up with the idea. I really wanted to participate in this hackathon for a long time. This was my second time taking part in such a competition; the first one was the hackathon from Intel. It was dedicated to Intel’s embed…

  23.11.2018

• Tel Aviv University Professor Boris Malomed on Non-Linear Physics and Solitons

  …itons. Ways that were simpler and cheaper. They could have replaced the peripherals; compared to the cost of the line itself, the costs of that are quite small. But they don’t want to have to retrain all of their staff who have spent years working on the regular lines. How do you feel about a technology that you worked on, which could have improved communicati…

  21.11.2018

• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Classicism

  …zan Cathedral, modeled after St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Walk along Nevsky Prospekt and admire its truly magnificent colonnade, made up of 94 columns. By the way, Voronikhin wanted to make the same colonnade on the other side of the cathedral but fate decreed otherwise. Jean-François Thomas de Thomon is yet another famous architect of the Alexander era. It w…

  20.11.2018

• Top Russian and European Firms Present Concept Designs for ITMO Highpark

  …ozlova. “We’re interested in creating spaces that will facilitate interdisciplinary research and collaboration between experts of different fields. When we choose projects, we want them to reflect that idea first and foremost.” At the same time, as per the project’s goals, ITMO Highpark will not only function as an innovations center and a university campus,…

  20.11.2018

• WUD@ITMO: Ending the Dispute Between Developers and Designers

  …eer at the Center of Usability and Mixed Reality Andrey Balkanskiy, the main goal of WUD@ITMO is to combine theoretical and practical approaches for the best results. “We want to tell our audience about the most fundamental aspects of human-computer interaction and interface design: human perception and psychology,” shares Andrey. “We did invite design practitio…

  20.11.2018

• Alfa-Bank Scholarship Winners on How to Innovate the Most Innovative University Out There

  …s online learning model by adding a special bot that would guide users through the process and help them create a bespoke educational path to suit their needs. By doing this I wanted to address the often-experienced problem of a lack of motivation. Unlike the conventional classes that take place within the university walls and require actual attendance, online course…

  19.11.2018

• Movie Fridays: The Best of Edward Norton

  … black-and-white scenes, and, of course, Norton’s captivating performance, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. It’s interesting that director Tony Kaye didn’t want to have Edward Norton as his lead character; in his opinion, Norton didn’t have that anarchic emotion required for American History X. The actor, however, got really invested in the film a…

  16.11.2018

• Intercultural Nights, Legends and Movies: Erasmus+Youth Exchange Program

  … At the end of the program, we shot a movie based on the legends of different countries. The participants of the exchange divided into teams, everyone settled upon a role they wanted to play in the filming process. Our team consisted of make-up artists, scriptwriters, and directors, as well as actors who we cast based on auditions. Before we started shooting, our dir…

  16.11.2018

• National Technology Revolution 20.35: Universities as Driving Force of Change

  …s exploration of new digital markets. What a company is ultimately equivalent to is people, and products are also defined by people developing them behind the scenes. So if we want to do something new, we either have to hire new specialists or encourage existing employees to start thinking differently. The new strategy set out that the company has to strengthen it…

  16.11.2018

• NTR 20.35 BarCamp Explored Prospects for Neural Interfaces

  … We’re only just starting to enter the market; as of now, we’ve managed to sign only a couple of agreements. But we’re keeping our debut on the Western markets on hold. We want to test the waters in the swimming pool before we dive deep into the ocean. Edward Kryzhanovsky, CEO of the Telebiomet company Our company Telebiomet is a resident of the Skolkovo in…

  15.11.2018