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• On Way to Smart City: Head of St. Petersburg e-Government Department on Digital Economy and City Services

  …ry is developing towards. Digital economy is one of these goals, but it has to be said that each goal includes aspects of digitization and optimization: for example, this pertains to the ways of improving the demographic landscape, system of law enforcement and other areas. Previously, the documents of similar importance, topic and scale had been written eithe…

  06.03.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 9-10

  …‘Maslenitsa in Song’ Festival at Mariinsky Theater Great news for music lovers out there! Throughout the entire week, the Mariinsky Theater hosts the Maslenitsa in Song choral music festival. Dozens of musicians from several countries will come to the Northern Venice to play all kinds of music: from folk, church and classical music t…

  06.03.2019

• Quantum Physicist Oleksandr Kyriienko on the Future of Computing and Making a Career in Science

  …ime. That’s when you grab your notebook, write it down, check it later with some simulations. After an idea is formulated, a long and meticulous process of working the task begins. Will it work with an existing experiment? Is there a need for a new setup? Can anything be done better? Therefore, in specific smaller cases there is a real possibility for “eureka moments…

  05.03.2019

• Sberbank’s Cyber-Security Staff on Protecting Bank’s Network Perimeter

  …he application level, allowing us to detect and block attacks on web applications which are let through by conventional network firewalls and intrusion detection systems. This instrument also allows specialists to detect the scripting, or the type of the attack encountered, similar vulnerabilities in the system, as well as the ways they are taken advantage of. The…

  05.03.2019

• Head of RN-Burenie Oil Company’s IT Department: Every Bit of Fundamental Knowledge I Have, I Learned at University

  …deas. The thesis was about a video content management system. In essence, it was sort of like today’s Skype with features such as conference calls and distributed content. For instance, if one person would edit a document, others would be able to see the changes in real time. Do keep in mind that for its time, it was not a common feature. It was successfully implemen…

  04.03.2019

• Evolutionary Biologist David Seaborg: Science Enriches Our Lives with Fantastic Ideas and Discoveries

  … We saved 10,000 acres of rainforest in Ecuador, which is the most biodiverse area in the world. According to the researchers from Missouri Botanical Garden, that area contains the most species-per-acre in the world. The Ecuadorian government approved for a road to be built through the rainforest, which would've resulted in large-scale felling of trees. We spent o…

  04.03.2019

• Make Blinis Like a Russian

  …e supposed to spit on the skillet to see if it’s hot enough. That part was just too much fun to miss. The skillet hissed, and I covered it with half a ladle of runny dough. Instead of a beautiful, lacy pancake that would make my grandmother proud, two minutes later I had a frisbee-like discus that was only good for tossing out of the window. Just like the Russian …

  04.03.2019

• Movie Fridays: Fine Tuning

• Chemists 'Print' Sensors for Nano-Objects

  …conducting both qualitative and quantitative analysis, although it is not yet selective. Scientists plan to immobilize antibodies on the film surface to detect individual proteins in biological samples. “We did a lot of preparation: designed the concept and studied a lot of literature. Since this method is based on a complex physical phenomenon, we not only work…

  01.03.2019

• Interdisciplinary Innovations at ITMO University: In Conversation With ChemBio Professor Ekaterina Skorb

  …r the University with their own knowledge telling us that they want to work with us: though they don’t know chemistry that well, they can always assist us in various ways, for instance, to develop alphabet for our informational systems or do MatLab simulations for our out of equilibrium chemical systems and self-organisation. However, bringing a chemist, a biologi…

  01.03.2019