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• Dmitriy Andrianov: We've Lost Our Opportunity To Develop IT-Outsourcing Industry

  …ain specialists can go from bank A to bank B, then to bank C, then back to bank A only because every time, they get a raise. Maybe, this is the reason why people get the impression that IT specialists often change their jobs. Recently, I had an interview with a specialist in the field of Computer Science who became a researcher because he got bored working as …

  11.08.2017

• RoboCup-2017: ITMO School Team Gets Novice Award

  … move different objects. It uses the SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) algorithm system to define obstacles, and recognizes the object it has to move with machine vision. To solve the tournament's tasks, the team used the YouBot mobile platform with a manipulator by KUKA (a german industrial robots manufacturer). During the preparation stage, the robot …

  10.08.2017

• Project Session at Sirius: Implants, Security and Nano-Shampoo

  …ity of this format, there are many opportunities for high-schoolers to participate in such training. One such venue is the Sirius educational center, when every month a new session begins. Once a year, the special “project session” is held. This year, it began in late June under the theme of “big Challenges”. For 26 days, school student…

  10.08.2017

• Cool Science: Why Science Communication Matters

  …, while their parents can work in major organizations sponsored by the government and private investors. Alexandra Borisova The society needs SciComm to serve as a decision support system in politics and economy. By speaking out in support of this or that research, society not only facilitates their development, but helps turn politicians and other authority …

  09.08.2017

• Levan Tatunashvili: Focusing On One's Own Resources Only is No Good

  … the Novosibirsk Technopark "Akadempark". This is one of the country's oldest accelerators - it has been around for about seven years already. During the first acceleration sessions that we conducted several years ago, we tried bringing mentors from all over the country, St. Petersburg included. Some of ITMO's staff members already participated in A:Start's ses

  08.08.2017

• Relocation Tips: Getting Your Cell Phone in Russia

  …s. It might be useful to think if you will need mainly data or more calls and text messages before going to get your sim card, because this is one factor you can base your decision on. Also the operators usually have very cheap calls and text messages to other numbers of the same operator. If you have some friends that you will be calling a lot, it might be a good id…

  08.08.2017

• How Neural Networks Help Scientists

  …short time it managed to gain millions of users. All the media noise caused by neural networks is for the best, thinks Alexander Krainov, head of Yandex’s Office of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence. After all, the more people talk about it, the more likely they are to invest in research and startups. As computer vision tec…

  08.08.2017

• ITMO University and NSU - New Collaborations for the National Technology Initiative

  …increasing of the quality of research conducted at ITMO and NSU for solving tasks of industry, commercialization of technologies developed by the universities, as well as expansion of the project activities of their students in fields prioritized by the NTI. One of the areas NSU and ITMO will cooperate in will be the organization of the A:Start acceleration progra…

  07.08.2017

• Summer at Sirius: SciComm, Interactive Learning and Sports Programming

  …ional center in Sochi welcomes up to 600 talented children from all over Russia. Throughout the year, school students aged from ten years and above arrive there for project sessions that last for 24 days. During this time, they get advanced knowledge in their chosen fields, as well as meet famous experts, attend workshops and go on field trips. Education at Sirius fo…

  07.08.2017

• ITMO Scientists Working on New Generation of Aircraft Fire Safety

  … One of the Laboratory's sensors But fake alarms onboard aircraft can cause more than additional expenses, panic or delays; smoke detector malfunction is one of the versions that experts have named as possible causes for the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 in May of 2016. According to Wall Street Journal, sources close to the investigation into the crash claim t…

  07.08.2017