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• Creativity and Traditions of Resistance: Financial Times on the Development of Innovations in Russia

  …ith foreign universities and companies and is encouraging its students to launch their own businesses”, - says John Thornhill, the editor for the Innovation section.  “We want to make the profession of entrepreneur more popular,” – says one academic. “People who are 30 or 40 still look at entrepreneurs as something suspicious”. Pavel Durov, the founder of the…

  17.08.2016

• Online Creativity: Crowdsourcing Services to Help Business

  …Many large companies face the following problem related to their numerous staff: officials don’t know about difficulties of industrial cluster and ideas that employees want to offer. That problem 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…

  12.08.2016

• Perseids 2016: Guide to Watching a Meteor Shower

  …as no relation to the Perseids and is called sporadic. Still, even sporadic meteors can be bright and interesting to watch. If you go meteor watching with a company and want to count the meteors you've seen, or know a lot about stars and constellations, you can watch Perseids "professionally": each of you has to pick a sector of the sky, using bright stars as …

  11.08.2016

• ITMO University Welcomes New Students

  …ntests, foreign students included. A student's dream ID More than 42% of this year's freshmen (471 students) have become the recipients of ITMO's special bonuses and allowances — the Gold, Silver and Bronze student ID cards. The most popular programs This year, the most popular program tracks were Computer Technologies and Controls and Information Technol…

  10.08.2016

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

  …cientific advisors - you'll need two of them. Another important thing is the Statement of purpose, that is a small essay on why you are interested in this particular topic and want to study it in Rochester. Don't forget to mention all your scientific achievements and other relevant stuff in your CV, including where you've worked and studied, and when. You'll also …

  08.08.2016

• Exploring Innopolis: Russia's Silicon Valley

  …e Summer School in Innopolis - this was something like a rehearsal of the educational process which will begin on August 15. I will be studying in Tatarstan for a year, then I want to finish my Master's program at ITMO University. What's studying at Innopolis like All the programs at Innopolis are in English. Most of the professors are from foreign universi…

  05.08.2016

• I, Chatterbot: Why Virtual Conversational Partners are on Trend Again

  …used for jogging, but the students are planning on developing its capabilities. This project has been submitted to the accelerator program by Dubai Accelerator TURN8. "We want to add new notifications, new types of sports and events, for the bot to be able to help in finding companions for different events, or movies, for instance. There already are different wa…

  05.08.2016

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

  …Petersburg, only 8% of drivers leave their cars in the city center for more than 3 hours. Roughly speaking, the current prices for paid parking are inadequate, so people don't want to use these services and prefer parking somewhere else. The other essential thing is the dynamics of the workload of parking space. As we can see, from September 2015 to May 2016 it ha…

  05.08.2016

• A Vegetarian’s Guide to St. Petersburg

  …le eating a piece of wonderful cherry strudel with a cup of herbal tea you can meet some of the other clients and talk to them. Thanks to the atmosphere of free networking you want to visit this place again and again. This "art-space" always offers its' visitors an opportunity to participate in various workshops. For instance, on the weekend they initiate raw food di…

  04.08.2016

• Self-Driving Cars: Safe and Modern Solution or a Step towards "Rise of the Machines?"

  …ngers. What should it be instructed to do?”  According to the results, people think that it would be correct if car kills a driver instead of dozen pedestrians. However nobody wants to have a car, which behaves that way. It means that people aim to develop cars that care about both drivers and pedestrians. Before to adjust to this novelty society has to answer sev…

  04.08.2016