R&D

Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University to develop next-gen supercomputers

August 28, 2012

The Russian Academy of Sciences announced it has started construction of a new supercomputer to perform at 10 petaflops, the newspaper Izvestia reports. One petaflop is a supercomputer’s ability to process one quadrillion (or 1,000 trillion) FLOPS (floating point operations per second). The first two sections of the supercomputer are expected to start operation at …

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Artificial neural networks near fruition in Tyumen

August 8, 2012

TASO, a Russian company based in Tyumen, Western Siberia, has plans to complete by the end of this year the development of TASO-NeuroMeccano, a software for global supercomputers, the regional news agency Tyumen Line reported last week citing the West Siberia Innovation Center. The software will reportedly enable the development of neurogenetic networks, dynamic models …

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Robotics key to Russia’s economic and military modernization

July 9, 2012

The symbiotic relationship between the on-line and the off-line worlds is nowhere more apparent than in the field of robotics. For, although it was advances in semiconductor physics and materials science starting in the 1970’s that enabled the development of microelectronic devices that powered computers, it was actually advances in manufacturing efficiencies, primarily the deployment …

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Alcatel Lucent and Rostechnologii sign “R&D pact” to advance LTE, network and transmission technologies

September 3, 2016

Alcatel-Lucent, a Paris-headquartered global leader in mobile, fixed, IP and Optics technologies, announced last week an expansion of its partnership with Rostechnologii, a large, state-owned Russian high-tech corporation much involved in the defense industry. The two companies have signed a “research and development pact” intended to “accelerate the deployment of advanced LTE services, new network …

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ABBYY and IBM support computational linguistics in Russian universities

May 18, 2012

The Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have each announced the opening of a program in computational linguistics. The two programs were developed in close cooperation with ABBYY and IBM, according to ABBYY, a leading Russia-based international supplier of linguistic and translation software and services …

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Russian company offers “breakthrough” in 3D face recognition technologies

May 7, 2012

Last week, the Russian high tech company Vocord introduced a new 3D face recognition and identification system that can be used in any public place. The system, which Vocord has presented as a technological breakthrough, takes pictures from different angles to build a 3D model of the face. This ‘non-cooperative’ approach does not require the …

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Russian scientists and Samsung engineers offer “adaptative 3D display”

May 2, 2012

Scientists at the Ultra-High-Speed Optoelectronics and Information Processing Lab of the Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN) have joined with engineers from the Samsung Electronics Research Center in Moscow to successfully produce a 3D display that adapts itself to each individual user, FIAN reported last week. The new adaptive system presents multiangle …

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Bauman University and IBM team up for research on “Smarter City”

April 25, 2012

The Bauman university, a leading Russian technical university, and IBM have opened “Smarter City,” a scientific and educational center based on the latest approaches to urban infrastructure management. The center will conduct R&D in the fields of image, audio and video recognition, cloud calculations and analytical software, in particular

Report: “Google, the US Yandex”

April 20, 2012

In association with East-West Digital News, faberNovel, a French innovation consulting firm with offices in Paris, San Francisco and Moscow, has just released an eye-opening presentation on the Russian Internet and innovation system. The report features the latest data on the Russian market and its key players, of course, but then goes further, providing useful …

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Microsoft to bring more technology to Russian academics

April 9, 2012

Microsoft and the Russian Academy of Sciences inked a long-term collaboration memorandum of understanding last week, pooling their efforts to develop the use of advanced IT tools in the academy’s research activities as well as joint education programs in Russia. In particular, Microsoft will assist the academy in upgrading its IT infrastructure, including a prospective …

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World’s first glasses free 3D videoconference between London and Russia

March 23, 2012

A live glasses free 3D conference between London and Tomsk, Siberia, was conducted yesterday, combining several British and Russian innovative technologies. The guests of the 3D Storytelling conference, a broadcast and gaming industry event held in London, could see and talk to selected participants in Russia, thousands of miles away in 3D without glasses, “as if …

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Made-in-Skolkovo products get first international clients

March 9, 2012

The potential of Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub nearing completion outside of Moscow, as a research and development base for marketable high tech products has been illustrated, for one of the first times, by the first international sales of a cloud computing solution developed with the support of Skolkovo’s IT cluster.

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