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Dmitriy Andrianov: We've Lost Our Opportunity To Develop IT-Outsourcing Industry
…Lesha Krivenkov, invited me to work at DataArt. At that time, I wasn't sure whether changing my job was a good thing to do, but the pay at DataArt was two times higher. For my new job, I had to solve totally different tasks. DataFont was a production company, and DataArt focused on service, though I didn't know it then; hence, I had to learn a lot. For instance, I ne…
11.08.2017
RoboCup-2017: ITMO School Team Gets Novice Award
…Nikolai Dema. During the tournament, the robot was to solve several tasks in six stages, each taking about 5-7 minutes long. After completion of every task, it got a new one. All in all, nine teams competed in the RoboCup@Work category; most of them used the KUKA YouBot platform for their robots, yet, there were teams that made their robots from scratch.…
10.08.2017
Project Session at Sirius: Implants, Security and Nano-Shampoo
…popularity 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 students aged 14 to 17 worked d…
10.08.2017
Cool Science: Why Science Communication Matters
…edge. This might raise the question: just how much can the public be an expert on a certain issue? Some groups, like ecologists, for example, will be in favor of installing new filtration systems at factories; yet entrepreneurs may not like such a development. With whom will science communicators side? After all, both sides can hire PR-experts to promote their vis…
09.08.2017
Levan Tatunashvili: Focusing On One's Own Resources Only is No Good
…rk. As of now, having its own business incubator, Technopark, engineering center and the like is often seen as a measure of a university's innovative nature, yet creating a new independent Technopark at the science campus when we already have the necessary infrastructure, one of the country's best to boot, would have been just stupid. The only question we have to …
08.08.2017
Relocation Tips: Getting Your Cell Phone in Russia
…changing your phone number. Here are the steps to do this. Go to one of the shops of the operator you want to change to. Remember to take your passport with you. Get a new sim card and a new contract as well as a date and time when your operator will change. When the time of the change comes, install the algorithm to two million stars and in just an hour the network has narrowed it down to 20,000 potential hypervelocity stars. Further selection processes minimized that number to 80 objects.…
08.08.2017
ITMO University and NSU - New Collaborations for the National Technology Initiative
… programs, and using the universities’ infrastructure for collaboration projects, including startups. In the near future, we plan on using each other’s resources for launching new programs in St. Petersburg and the Novosibirsk region. By the end of the year, we will already be able to show some results in the fields of NTI and innovative entrepreneurship," explains N…
07.08.2017
Summer at Sirius: SciComm, Interactive Learning and Sports Programming
… agricultural, bio- and nanotechnologies, unmanned transport and logistic systems, bionic robots and neural interfaces, Big Data, cognitive research, microcosm and microscopy, new materials, ocean engineering, personalized medicine, modern power industry, satellites and manned spacecraft. All of the session's participants were already winners and runner-ups of the Al…
07.08.2017
ITMO Scientists Working on New Generation of Aircraft Fire Safety
…on into the crash claim that smoke detector malfunction has been a problem on A320 airplanes before. For instance, in April 2011 this happened on a United Airlines flight from New Orleans. The signal was determined to be false; after that event, the company sent a memo to its pilots regarding false alarms, instructing them to follow emergency guidelines only in case …
07.08.2017