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Best Startup Projects at the Demo Day of the FT START/GenerationS Accelerator Program
…Danilov. Solar Power Bank project A portable charger is only one of the things the startup is going to develop. The team has many more solutions to offer in the future. For instance, by 2018 they are going to launch a project on fixing residential areas and important social facilities with solar panels. The best projects were awarded free access to the electron…
23.12.2016
Laser Technologies for Micro- and Nanoprocessing of Glass
…Products made of glass became popular due to development of the architecture of macro objects when the era of skyscrapers started. Later such tendencies inspired engineers and researchers to create complicated and unique micro systems. A disadvantage of these micro systems is that using them it is easy to study various super microscopic physical-chemical processes. …
23.12.2016
Scientists Design a Computer Simulation of a Human Artery
…irtual Artery is testing new drugs and surgical techniques. "The medical industry and society as a whole are interested in reducing the amount of animal experimentation," explains project supervisor Alfons Hoekstra, professor at the University of Amsterdam and ITMO University. "Besides other, our goal is to create a tool that will provide an alternative to such tests…
23.12.2016
Small Innovative Enterprise "Intelligent Information Systems" Attracts New Investors
…University’s future graduates can look for new ways to apply their scientific knowledge and experience, as well as obtain new business and entrepreneurial competences." — explains Aleksander Ostroukhov, head of the SIE Cooperation Office. Denis Zhuk, the commercial director of "IIS", says that in 2016, the staff of the enterprise was mainly engaged in refining …
22.12.2016
ITMO Graduate on Three Failures and One Victory
… unexpectedly for the startupers, thanks to word-of-mouth advertising they started attracting more and more people. One famous body builder offered to promote Grow Food on his Instagram account if they were to deliver meals to him for free. They accepted the offer, and this helped them find 15 clients. "The things we do is not Porsche quality. We offer Hyundai Sola…
22.12.2016
St. Petersburg and the Yakutia Republic Develop IT
… winner. The jury also appreciated two projects from St. Petersburg. The first one, "Hide and Kill" is a corporate game based on AR, where players use their cell phones instead of guns. It was developed by Maksim Tretiakov, student of the Department of Computer Engineering and Design, and Georgi Gerasimov, who studies at the Department of Informatics and Appli…
21.12.2016
From White Nights to Black Days: Surviving the Deep, Dark Winter in St. Petersburg
…al canvas for digitally enhanced video wizardry and the fine art of Russian animated storytelling. The multimedia show will comprise of three distinct sections, all drawing inspiration from this year’s citywide celebration of Russian and Soviet Cinema: the first will see the city’s iconic Bronze Horseman monument — rather like in Pushkin’s narrative poem of the sa…
21.12.2016
ITMO Develops a New Modular Platform for Robot Construction
…fferent combinations that fit particular tasks. ITMO's developers mostly used Russian electronic components and elements, while most UAV manufacturers prefer foreign ones. For instance, they've used the Milandr microcontroller for the flight control module. That aside, all the elements of the UAV (more than a hundred pieces) were designed and printed on a 3D printer …
21.12.2016
10 Things We Are Proud of in 2016
… it past thousands of participants and took their prize spot next to MIT and just below Harvard. Nature Index names ITMO a "Rising Star". Tracking research at over 8,000 institutions worldwide, the index draws out countries and institutions "that are the players to watch." The authors noted that ITMO U "saw a leap of 184% in its W…
20.12.2016
"Death and Life of Catalysts": Evgeny Pidko on Getting the ERC Grant and his Research Plans
…ts ERC gives: ERC Starting Grants, ERC Consolidator Grants, And ERC Advanced Grants. The latter, 2.5 million euros for five years, is given to the best of the best. For instance, Ben Feringa, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, got the ERC Advanced two times. One can apply for the ERC Starting Grant, 1.5 million Euros for five years, only five years after gett…
20.12.2016