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• Open Innovations: Future According to Jack Ma and Michio Kaku

  …it does not intend to turn inward and create a “digital kolkhoz”. “The Russian market’s capacity is limited; we intend to promote our products on the global market and we want to cooperate with international partners. It is important to create an atmosphere of trust – even today, when that’s not always easy. We remain open and the dialogue will continue,” – he e…

  18.10.2017

• Why Smart Cities Need Standardization: Experts Discuss

  … is reflected in large amounts of data, affects the services' current development and is unique to every city. "Let's say we build a road. There's some particular area we want to replace. In Toronto, we make use of the tender system. Different companies compete for the tender, take part in negotiations, then we define the total costs and choose a contractor. We …

  17.10.2017

• Gazprom Media Technologies CEO: Never Say "I Have No Experience"

  … six months people’s tasks change, and sometimes you are given a chance to try working in a new position. Since right after finishing university, no one really knows what they want to do. At 24 years old, I was barely educated. I sent my resume to companies from absolutely different fields. I hadn’t decided in what area I wanted to d…

  16.10.2017

• How to Change the World Through Cooking

  … underlying processes. You can cook with knowledge or with intuition. I don’t claim that knowledge makes your food tastier, but it will at least help you cook exactly what you wanted to. If you know how it works, you can plan out a specific kind of omelet, for example, and end up with just that. When you don’t know the inner workings of cooking and what depends on wh…

  13.10.2017

• ITMO Graduate from India on Benefits of Double Degree

  …completely new place; but that is exactly what inspired me and made me happy later on. One of the main reasons I chose ITMO was that I’d already studied in my home country and wanted to experience a different education system. To me, this was a place where I had the chance to try out new subjects, to study them in new ways, and learn to be independent. I thought – wh…

  11.10.2017

• Relocation Tips: Cost of Living

  …r their devotees. We guess that you can easily find information about them online. The more interesting question is to estimate costs of living for those who can not or do not want to dive into the world of luxury in St. Petersburg. Do bear in mind that prices can range depending on what part of the city you live in, but here are a few examples, around the center of…

  10.10.2017

• What It Means to Be an Architect in 21st Century

  …e in-depth interview. Through a particular selection, through a particular number of questions and answers, it becomes apparent what people appreciate in a space and what they want to get from it. The hardest and yet the most creative part of an architect’s work is creating a vision. When all information has been gathered and analyzed, the specialist needs to unde…

  10.10.2017

• “I’m a Professional” Academic Competition Offers Opportunities to Russian Students

  …perience of working with Yandex on Olympiads, and already has the technical side figured out. We are currently deciding with companies about the format of the questions and we want to focus less on those subjects with automatic answers and more on those where you would use a so-called “project method”. So the tasks will be more similar to a hackathon format, when com…

  09.10.2017

• ITMO's Young Scientists Get Grants as Part of UMNIK Program

  …t) which included specialists from the California Institute of Technology, Ioffe Institute, ITMO and several Turkish scientists; I’m currently reviewing their results, which I want to use as a basis for a practical device. This is what I received the grant for. Amongst my short-term objectives is conducting experiments and learning the efficiency rates of thermoelect…

  06.10.2017

• Telemedicine in Russia: How IT Technologies Help Improve the Healthcare System

  …perators in the central processing station, two of them are doctors. Each year, they process more than 5,000 requests. It works as follows: we get a request from a patient who wants an examination, so we send him a template with the list of medical documents, records, images and the like he has to submit. After we get this package, we have to check whether it's compl…

  05.10.2017