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VK Hackathon Winners: Using New Tech to Run Online Communities
… Hermitage Museum, Tinkoff, the UNESCO Institute, Selectel, the State Tretyakov Gallery and other organizations. ITMO’s team chose the category "Media": the students chose the news-focused case by Lentach (a well-known VK-based news page - Ed.). The main problem of any well-known public page is the huge stream of content offered by its…
08.11.2017
WorldSkills: How World-Class Specialists are Trained in Russia
…to popularize service work and increase its status. Today, these events are an effective way of training qualified workers who can respond to global standards and the needs of new, high-tech productions. Regional, national, continental and international competitions are held under the WorldSkills banner. Participants show their skills by performing tasks specific …
08.11.2017
Artur Khanov: I Can’t Even Imagine A Profession That Gives You This Much Freedom
…t a year. Once, he called me and invited me to join him at St. Petersburg State University’s Department of Software Engineering. So, I’ve decided to go there and try something new instead of sitting home doing nothing. According to statistics, there are about 200,000 programmers in Russia; some 10,000 work with cybersecurity. Though there aren’t many such speciali…
07.11.2017
Technopark Resident's Projects Get Government Support At Sochi Youth Expo
… they collaborate with the Ministry of Education and Science on a strategy for the introduction of scanning probe microscopes into the list of required technical equipment for new schools. “This is an important occasion for both NT-SPb and ITMO University; we’ve successfully passed through several “filters”. Firstly, the university’s expert committee had chosen …
07.11.2017
5 Science News Now
…storage location for memories, the researchers theorized that this neural dialogue could help the brain retain information. E-textiles for military and emergency personnel. New technology that harnesses electronic signals in a smart fabric could lead to advanced hazardous-material gear that protects against toxic chemicals, according to research from Dartmouth Col…
06.11.2017
KronBars Tops List of Russia's Best Student Sports Clubs
COMSOL DAY: Tractor Beams, Optical Traps and Nanoparticle Manipulation
…cluded workshops, training sessions, and lectures from guest speakers. Specialists who actively publish the results of their work with COMSOL Multiphysics software and develop new algorithms for it are invited to present their ideas. During the Moscow event, there were three such speakers, Alexander Shalin among them. COMSOL Day’s organizers had taken notice of th…
03.11.2017
Campus Festival: Why Data Science Is All Around Us And Why Memes Are Folklore?
…ther term - statistics. If one reads statistics definition on wikipedia, it will be just paraphrasing that of Data Science. So, what's the point? Someone just wanted to give a new definition to an existing term? In reality, Data Science and statistics are both terms that many people misuse. Whenever some new popular term emerges, man…
02.11.2017
Kinda Science: Festival of Absurd and Bizarre Ideas
…sed by thousands of researchers from around the world for crystal structure prediction. He is a Professor and Head of the Center for Materials by Design at State University of New York in Stony Brook. He is also a professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and head of other laboratories in Russia and China. Recent studies have shown that, under pressure, as w…
02.11.2017
Chemist Artem Oganov: On Blind Spots in Chemistry and Materials of Future
…t important thing yet: I have three children, and my fourth is on the way. USPEX USPEX software interface. Credit: uspex-team.org What we are doing is a part of the new technological revolution; the name of that revolution is computational materials discovery. The dream that people have cherished for many, many decades, or even centuries is now beginning t…
02.11.2017