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SingleStore Founder Nikita Shamgunov on How to Launch a Startup
…e to outsource them, and it’s hard to hire a programmer if you aren’t one yourself.” At the same time, the team may not include a person who is well-versed in business specifically. If there is one, then they must have some kind of a superpower that the company needs. For example, the ability to sell, communicate with customers, build a community, and so on. …
24.02.2021
Top Five Places in Russia You Can’t Really Visit
…n the Middle Ages, in modern Russian it is used as a term to describe some super distant location you have no idea how to reach. The real-life Tmutarakan, however, had more specific coordinates. It was located in Krasnodar Krai and ruins attributed to it still can be seen there. Buyan Byan is a town on an island often mentioned in Russian folklore. Like Tridevy…
22.02.2021
ITMO Graduate Grigory Klyushnikov Develops Clubhouse Client for Android in One Day
…xperiments. It’s much more productive this way. But for the most part, programmers need self-education. You often have to figure out everything yourself in order to solve a specific task.…
20.02.2021
ITMO Scientists Propose Improved Solar Cells for Use in Smart Glass
…d properties. They believe that the same method could be used to boost the characteristics of other materials that demonstrate a higher efficiency from the start. “The specific numbers will vary, as different devices can employ different principles, but we can predict that we’ll be able to increase the efficiency of other solar cell types in the same manner,” no…
20.02.2021
Quantified Self and Personal Science: How I Almost Missed the Point
…Quantified Self, was among the first ten Google Search results for “quantified self”. It offered quite a positive overview of the concept, plus several interesting links to specific projects, as well as a list of useful gimmicks and apps. On the whole, all of that was quite interesting, but as with many such blog posts, its message was something like “here’s a cool t…
19.02.2021
ITMO Professor Aleksandr Farseev on Long Tail Marketing and 2020 Gartner Cool Vendors Award
…ng (that is, caught Gartner's interest during the past year). What do you think helped your company to become a winner? Gartner analysts, naturally, do not voice specific reasons for choosing this or that company. But, in my opinion, we were selected in terms of innovation because our platform turns to AI to solve marketing problems. Perhaps, Gartner consi…
19.02.2021
How Citizen Science Helps Drive Research Forward
…entific projects on the People of Science platform, which was launched late last year. This website helps Russian scientists quickly and efficiently recruit enthusiasts for specific tasks – and lets volunteers find exciting projects and meet like-minded people. New platforms to help biologists Back in the Soviet times, people were big on nature studies and expl…
18.02.2021
ITMO Holds First Hack for Your Success Hackathon
… professor at the Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems and a curator of the hackathon admits that the case was rather demanding and original: apart from the specifics of data analysis which require relevant background, the platform doesn’t work with all programming languages – and that was one more limitation the participants had to deal with. From th…
17.02.2021
Do TikTokers Need Diplomas? ITMO Hosts Clubhouse Discussion on the Future of Higher Education
…hing big. We decided to set up a dialogue between not only the representatives of universities – such events happen all the time – but with people from outside the academia specifically. It was interesting for us to learn how people see higher education and what issues they have with it,” he said. “In addition to people from the online education community, we’ve invi…
16.02.2021
SCAMT Workshop Week Takes Place at ITMO University
…ongest one. We had been discussing if it’s possible to let people from completely unrelated fields work on our projects for a long time. The Art & Science field has its own specifics: its specialists often would like to add some art features to scientific projects but they often don’t have enough experience in science. We decided to try and provide them with it, albe…
16.02.2021