Earlier this week, the global energy group Shell announced its Russian division has inked an agreement with Russian company Antel-Oil on joint research into the development of software to process 3D seismic prospecting data. The agreement is reported to be Shell’s investment contribution to a Russian project called the “Creation of supercomputer technologies for seismic …
Last week NeoPhotonics, a US-based developer of optoelectronics for high-speed communications networks, opened its R&D center and Russia/Eastern Europe sales office in Moscow, a year after it received a capital injection from Rusnano, Russia’s state-owned nanotech investment corporation. Tim Jenks, chairman and CEO of NeoPhotonics, told Rusnano that he hopes the move will help his …
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Mikron, a 50-year-old Russian microelectronics maker located in Zelenograd just outside Moscow, announced earlier this week that it has developed its own subminiature RFID chip. The ISO 14443-2.3 standard chip, just 0.2 square millimeters in area, is purported to retain the functionality of a conventional chip while offering a more competitive price.
The Dubna International University of Nature, Society and Man, located in the town of Dubna some 130km north of Moscow, has announced that its innovators have developed software for an intelligent video surveillance system that can automatically recognize vehicles’ license plates and control road gates to let authorized vehicles pass inside a secure area. The …
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In late April, Cisco and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) signed a letter of intent envisioning a wide range of joint activities in the fields of scientific research and education. These include a practical training program for Russian industry professionals and government employees in the US. In accordance with the agreement, the …
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The California branch of the Russian Internet operator Yandex has developed a prototype software application that enables users to read news from social networks on their televisions. According to a company statement, users can manage the process by physically gesturing. Tatyana Komarova, a Yandex spokesperson, said that the experiment was a joint effort by Yandex Labs …
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Peter Löscher, Siemens’ CEO and president, said at a press briefing earlier this month that his company is investing €40 million in Russia with plans to set up as many as 90 different R&D centers in tight cooperation with Skolkovo. It is the first German company to put up a sizable amount of funds to …
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“Coercion to innovation” – a term coined by the Russian business media for the Medvedev cabinet’s policy of incentivizing Russian state-controlled businesses and overcoming their general non-receptiveness to modernization – has produced little result, and it is government coffers, not corporate ones, that have paid for most revamping. This is how Mikhail Gershman, a senior …
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Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom is said to be working on a new search engine, CNews.ru reports. According to the publication’s sources in one of the Russian Internet companies, the national search portal has been christened Sputnik, with the corresponding domain already registered to Rostelecom’s subsidiary RTCOMM. The Internet search market in Russia is dominated …
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Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have developed a new device that they hope could replace USB flash drives, the “Science and Technologies RF” portal reported, citing Alexei Zablotsky, PhD, vice dean of MIPT’s Physical and Quantum Electronics department and the deputy chief of the Institute’s Multiple-Access Center. “One of the …
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Scientists at the thin-film laboratory of Vladivostok-based Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) have mastered the art of making nano-portraits, the Russian media have reported. According to Alexander Samarda, an associate professor of FEFU’s computer systems department, the nano-portraits are created on a 50-nanometer thick polymer film pre-applied to a silicon substrate.
The Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Siberia announced last week that a team of students and postgraduates designated WAFT (for We Are From TPU) has developed a project enabling drug-free memory regeneration. The Total Recall project offers a software-enabled system that helps people with amnesia regain their memory by analyzing the movement pattern of their …
