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• WorldSkills Russia: Why Participate?

  …and develop collaborations with international enterprises. By involving industrial partners in the contests, universities promote particular competencies. ITMO University, for instance, hosts the qualification round in Laser Technology in collaboration with its partners, the Laser Center and Procolorit companies. Specialists in laser technologies are high-class profe…

  01.11.2017

• Master’s Student: Why IT Specialists Need to Get Involved in Science

  …ce that the tech giants like Google, Facebook and others are investing serious amounts of money into their R&D branches. Of course, everyone has their own requirements. For instance, if an employer needs backend app developers, they’ll gladly take in even someone who hasn’t gotten their Bachelor’s. Many companies in IT these days need specialists who can quickly f…

  01.11.2017

• Unity Day, or Who Stole the “Soviet Christmas”?

  … until it was replaced by the current Unity Day of November 4th in 2004. If you google “Unity Day in Russia”, you’ll most likely get a link to a Wikipedia article that explains that the holiday commemorates “the uprising which expelled Polish occupation forces from Moscow in November of 1612”. Officially, the name refers to how Russian people of different nations,…

  31.10.2017

• BIOCAD Expert: Building Teams in Innovative Businesses

  …re of change To form and develop innovative teams, it is vital to create a system that helps gives rise to a culture of development, innovation and change. If a company has instilled a culture of change, it can duly be called an innovative enterprise. What are the main criteria that define whether such a culture exists in a company? First of all, in a culture o…

  31.10.2017

• ITMO Students Develop Smart Footwear for People with DIsabilities

  … For purposes of the presentation, all electronic components were displayed on a stand apart from the shoes themselves. However, in the end product all the elements will fit inside the footsole together with the battery. BEZGRANIZ COUTURE SAP FashionTech Hackathon “We want to make it so that prices for our footwear wouldn’t exceed those of regular shoes. At…

  31.10.2017

• Technophobes And Fear of New Technology

  …logy. As the technology evolves, the object of fear changes. At one point in time, people feared steam engines. And today many people are wary of self-driving cars and blockchains. Who is most exposed to technophobia? Does social status or rather psychological characteristics of a person matter here? There are obvious sociodemographic factors that are related t…

  30.10.2017

• ITMO Codes Its Way to Top of Academic Excellence Project 5-100

  …ies and closing remarks. Olga Golodets, chairman, and Andrei Volkov, deputy chairman of Project 5-100's International Council Before the session, the universities were inspected and evaluated by a number of criteria to provide a basis for an overall ranking of participating institutions. Universities were evaluated according to …

  28.10.2017

• Edible Coating Makes Food Last Longer, Reduces Waste

  …versible physical, chemical and biological processes start to kick in, including surface oxidation, internal fermentation; particular bacteria also start to live and reproduce inside them. This leads to the product getting spoiled; sometimes you can notice it with the naked eye, sometimes not. Alexander Podshivalov “You can eat a fruit and never notice that i…

  27.10.2017

• Seldon the Robot's Rise to Fame

• Up in the Air: Are Flying Taxis the Future of Mass Transit?

  …ine reducing your 90-plus minute stop-and-go office commute to a mere six minutes!” – teases Uber’s press release. Surely, such prospects would please any city dweller! For instance, the average citizen of San Francisco spends approximately 230 hours a year on their commute from home to work and back. That’s nearly 10 full days! This kind of time-waste also has a …

  26.10.2017