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• The New NANO-year in Saint Petersburg

  …«According to new FSES, research and project activities are to be a mandatory part of the educational process for schoolers from the 1st to 9th Grade, but there is a total lack of necessary educational materials on Russian educational market. The „School League“ set the task to support extracurricular activities, we offer ready-to-use educational products — aids for …

  13.09.2016

• ITMO’s Graduate Ilya Czech on How to Develop the Prosthesis Market in Russia

  …nderstand that we don't just offer new technology, but the methods to rehabilitation as well, they become inspired and help us in every way. Before we started, this field was totally neglected; noone really worked with children and their parents. We, on the other hand, invite a psychologist when we first apply the prosthesis. He communicates with the patient, makes a…

  13.09.2016

• Quantum Perspectives: Present and Future Tech

  …eir own companies on the base of the university for commercializing research results. This approach has become popular in Russian universities as well. Personnel We totally lack people - we've lost lots of competencies. The problem is that "brain drain" is still a reality. And this depends not on money only. Talented scientists want to work at world-renowne…

  09.09.2016

• Bringing the Aquabus Back: St. Petersburg Water Taxi Can Be in Demand Aain

  … were more of a tourist attraction. What’s more, the city had to subsidize 480 rubles per person each trip, with the fare being 200-380 rubles. As a result, the system became totally ineffective and completely degraded in 5 years, and was closed in 2015. Still, Valentina believes that general idea of aquabuses was good. “One has to understand that public …

  23.08.2016

• Evgeny Pidko: Chemistry is a Catalyst for Success

  …s to proof that man-made inventions can be much more effective than the nature-made objects. I also study mechanisms of chemical reactions to understand the principles for total control over materials and nature. My research mainly focused on the field of catalysis. Catalysis is a principle that provides with the tools to regulate chemical reactions.  By adding a …

  18.08.2016

• Faster, Higher, Smarter: 5 Main Technological Novelties of 2016 Olympics

  …e can take a look at the Olympic arenas and stadiums. Yandex added the "Hi-fi" module to the official iOS and Android apps, using which one can support Russia's sportsmen. Total Immersion To see the Olympic stadium, you don't need a ticket to Rio de Janeiro: NBC and BBC do live translations of the Olympics in spherical 360 video. One can watch BBC's reports usi…

  16.08.2016

• I, Chatterbot: Why Virtual Conversational Partners are on Trend Again

  …the Department of Technological Management and Innovations, explained that the new wave of chatterbot's popularity originates in the East. The creators of WeChat, Line and KakaoTalk were the first ones to realize that messengers are "the new Internet". Even those who don't need social networks make use of them: a smart phone is something you carry around, using a fam…

  05.08.2016

• Big City Traffic Made Effective: from Paid Parking to Life-Hacks

  … to cover their outlay. There is a good indicator - "value of time" - the cost of one's minute of life for the economics. Within this context, the bridge in Krasnoyarsk was a total waste of money. In our work, we use multi-agent macro-modeling for cities with populations exceeding one million, and it works. To do that, we have to know, where from, when and where t…

  05.08.2016

• Webometrics: ITMO Is Making its Way to the Top

  …, now taking 130th place.  The methodology of the webometrics ranking is based on four criteria. The first, the web presence criterion evaluates universities according to the total amount of web-pages on the main university’s domain that are indexed by Google. The openness criterion evaluates science publication archives made by universities. The excellence criterion…

  29.07.2016

• Webometrics: ITMO Makes it to Top-3 Russian Universities

  … and the number of their referred webdomains, ITMO moved up 333 positions. Another considerable improvement (+118 positions) was for the size indicator, which is based on the total number of web pages extracted from Google, including rich files. There was also a small improvement for the Scholar indicator (+4 positions), based on the total

  28.07.2016