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• Tech Entrepreneur Grigory Kunis: Sky's the Limit

  …Grigory Kunis was the executive director of The St. Petersburg Times and the co-founder and publisher of Moy Rayon newspaper. In 2014, he founded the e-grocery service iGoods. Our company’s motto is “saving our customers ten days out of a year”. Without having to go to the store, pick their purchases, wait in lines and bring everything home, our customers are free…

  07.12.2018

• Bright New Dawn of Light-Guided Photonics: How the Next Generation of Fiber-Optic Device is Made

  …ping field that offers many ambitious challenges. Can you tell us what makes this field so relevant? Light-guided photonics is a field that is currently focused on creating new measurement systems for all kinds of physical values: acoustic, mechanical, electromagnetic and, naturally, optical. A good example of that would be the invention of the fiber-optica…

  06.12.2018

• Education Anew: Motivation, Development, and Careers in the Digital Age

  …t the 15 minutes you spend in the bus isn’t enough time to do something useful; in fact, finding a couple of minutes in-between your regular daily tasks can amount to a lot of new opportunities.  How to stay motivated? Marina K.: The main thing with motivation is that you have make it meaningful, in other words, to decide for yourself why is that you need t…

  06.12.2018

• School of Technology Brokering: Establishing Communication between Science and Business

  …zation of intellectual property. We asked the school's participants who came from Russia's regions about why they decided to attend the school and their plans for using the new knowledge they got. Aysulu Murzabekova, project manager at Gazohim Engineering LLC, Ufa In my opinion, Russia's technology brokering market is still underdeveloped, and the invited ex…

  06.12.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 8-9

  …hing latter-day and some top-drawer jazz, and with for-a-song prices as well. December 8, from 11 am to 6 pm; be there or be square. Have a great weekend! Yours truly, ITMO.NEWS…

  05.12.2018

• St.Petersburg International Innovation Forum 2018: Digital Economy, Biometry and Education

  …etersburg's stand-in governor Alexander Beglov assured the participants that the government will do everything necessary for the local hi-tech enterprises to develop and offer new jobs to the citizens. Digital economy will drastically change the labor market, said the city’s vice-governor Sergey Movchan. In his opinion, changing one's profession and field of activ…

  05.12.2018

• National Center for Cognitive Technologies Staff on Connecting Education, Research and Industry

  …l like part of a team. They asked us interesting and relevant questions, and our partners in the industry are very much interested in involving young specialists in developing new solutions. K.B: Students can see that the education they are getting is relevant to the needs of the actual industry. For instance, our Master’s students start working as part of scienti…

  05.12.2018

• Winter Fairs in St. Petersburg

  …e’s also an ice rink where you can rent a pair of skates and a fun fair where you can compete for prizes, or even meet the Russian Santa Claus, Old Man Frost, at his cabin. New Year at Dom Kultury (December 15-16, 3-8 PM) Before you go and stuff yourself, how about taking a trip to the past? A Soviet-style “yolka” - a holiday celebration - is going to be held a…

  04.12.2018

• Head of the .NET-Development Department at JetBrains Sergey Kux: Don’t Build a Process Just for the Sake of It

  …hold such meetings daily, just, say, once a week. But even if you’re dealing with a simple, no-frills stand-up, you need to understand the reasons behind it. When we introduce new processes, it impedes people in their work, especially if this work is already well-organized. For this to be effective, we need to make it so everyone is interested in what it is that they…

  04.12.2018

• New York University Professor Kimon Keramidas on Digitalization and Digital Humanities

  …ing this term in relation to cultural studies. In 1993, the Wired magazine appeared. This title became a forum for people who were involved in the digital industry and knew how to make the most of such technologies. Another important step was the book Being Digital (1995) by Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT's Media Lab. His goal was to bring the topic beyon…

  03.12.2018