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• Founder of MEL Science Vasily Filippov: Only Those Who Work Hard Are Successful

  … In 2011, you sold your company to Yandex, and in 2014, you founded MEL Science. Why did you decide to quit your programming career and start afresh in science? I’ve always wanted to become a scientist, actually. You could say that was my childhood dream. When in school, I won a national physics competition and was determined to make science my life’s work. But th…

  18.10.2018

• Laeneco Founder Ilya Skorobogatov: How to Take the Japanese Market by Storm

  … the Japanese jump at our product is its more-than-modest price: 179 USD per device. For Japan, that’s a very attractive price tag. It’s important to note that the Japanese want to distribute the device among medical staff and specially trained volunteers, who, according to their plan, will go door to door, measure people’s medical data and report it to data colle…

  18.10.2018

• What It’s Like to Make Games for a Living

  …of toilets: worn, dirty, clean, from this or that country. Starting out in game development What is the most important quality for any artist or other specialist who wants to get into video games? First of all, it’s experience. There is a dire shortage of professionals right now. Secondly, you need a good portfolio. An artist should boast their works, not t…

  17.10.2018

• ITMO Students Study Circular Economy in Latvia

  …iences (Finland), and the University of Latvia. The idea was initiated by Olga Sergienko, an assistant professor at ITMO’s Faculty of Food Biotechnologies and Engineering, who wanted to develop the already existing educational program in the field of cradle-to-cradle economy in order to give students the opportunity to work on real projects. The project will last …

  17.10.2018

• PhD Vitaly Aksenov: Coding For Someone Other Than Myself Is Boring

  … national research university that focuses on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics. He invited me to work for him, and the Computer Technologies Department wanted to organize a joint PhD program. This wasn’t very easy, as INRIA is not a university is a common sense, they can’t give you a diploma. That’s why I had to register at a different univers…

  16.10.2018

• Open Innovations 2018: Higher Education in the Digital Age

  …nt. What needs to be done to make the system work? How to create conditions for collaboration between businesses and universities? Business’ perspective: what does industry want from universities? According to Siemens Vice President Martin Gitsels, who talked about how companies worldwide collaborate with educational institutions, universities are responsible f…

  16.10.2018

• International Olympiad in Informatics 2018 Winners: Even If You’re Tired, Don’t Lose Sight of Your Goals

  …When did you start programming and how did you realize that this was the field you want to pursue? Ramazan Rakhmatullin: I come from Kazan, where I graduated from the Lobachevsky lyceum of Kazan Federal University. I transferred to that school because of the intensive computer science training it offered. I started programming in 2014 right after I finished sevent…

  15.10.2018

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: The Museum of Sound

  …t about this place? Quite tellingly, most of the Museum’s activities have to do with sound, and music in particular. Still, it is not the musical concerts that you’d really want to come for (to my taste, the bands that play there are often way too “experimental”, their music aimed at “true connoisseurs” rather than regular people); it is the place’s side projects …

  12.10.2018

• Rostelecom’s Project Leader Alisa Korzhenevskaya: We’re Slowly but Surely Digitizing the World Around Us

  …‘order’. Although it doesn’t fit into the classical management paradigm, we have to ensure that the contractor in the form of an IT company gets exactly what a government body wants as a final result. How to bridge these two sides who don’t often see eye to eye on how a project should be implemented? The secret is in visualizing each step of the process: it smooth…

  12.10.2018

• How to Write a Thesis on Marvel Comic Books: PhD Student Daniil Shirokov Explains

  …ow, I’m busy teaching the Soft Skills course dedicated to research ethics. I have a wonderful group of students and I’m really enjoying being a teacher in general: I’ve always wanted to become one, to share my knowledge with others. Although ‘teaching’ is a bit of an overstatement. I drove my girlfriend nuts, my friends are sick of my scientific evangelizing, so I ne…

  12.10.2018