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ITMO students are the best coders in the world, says new ranking

December 27, 2016

Which colleges have the best coders in the world? This simple question is not addressed by academic rankings. The “Top Computer Science Programs ranking of U.S. News & World Report, for example, takes into account such criteria as number of research papers produced, global research reputation, and number of conferences — but practical coding skills are not even …

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Cybercrime presents global challenge – and business opportunities

December 29, 2016

Hackers may be associated around the world with Russia above any other country, thanks to news reports that often describe cybercriminals as Russian, and to accusations this year that Russian hackers were behind attacks on the U.S. Democratic National Committee. The problem, however, is very much a global one, international experts agreed at the Skolkovo …

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Skolkovo expands R&D partnership with Panasonic as Russia and Japan seek to bolster ties

December 16, 2016

Today Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, and Panasonic, a world leader in electronics and system solutions, agreed “strategic areas” for  their business cooperation in 2017. The agreement was signed in the framework of the Russia-Japan Business Dialogue during the visit of Russian president Vladimir Putin in Japan. The parties intend to “make an …

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Russian students create programming language to help their ‘streetwise’ peers graduate

December 13, 2016

On December 5, a group of students at Saint Petersburg’s College of Information Technologies launched a parody programming language designed for “streetwise” computer science students struggling with traditional languages like JavaScript and C++. As reported by the news website TJournal, Semyon Gozman, Mikhail Belozerskiy, and Georgiy Mkhitaryan came up with“YoptaScript,” which appropriates Russian slang to make it easier for street-educated students to understand, …

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Well drilling software publisher raises $2 million to increase drilling profitability “up to 5 times”

December 12, 2016

Geosteering Technologies (also known as Geonavigation Technologies or GTI), a Russian developer of software solutions for well drilling, has raised $2 million in a Series B round of funding. The round was led by AYR, a Moscow-based private equity and financial advisory firm, with participation from North Energy Ventures and Phystech Ventures, an earlier investor in the company. The deal, …

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For tech hub in Russia’s rustbelt, recession’s a godsend

December 13, 2016

Voronezh — Russia’s economy is in a quagmire thanks to sanctions and low oil prices, but it’s a boom time for Mikhail Khorpyakov. The 32-year-old, who develops software for Russian and foreign clients, has seen his earnings rise over the last two years even as the country fell into recession and the national currency lost half …

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Russian startups present their public security solutions in France

December 9, 2016

Amid heightened security alerts in airports, train stations and other public places across the world, Skolkovo startups working on security solutions for crowded places have travelled to France to demonstrate their technologies and search for potential partners. The delegation, which consisted of seven resident companies from the nuclear and IT clusters of the Russian tech hub, embarked …

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Russian tech park Kalibr agrees cooperation with Iranian counterparts

December 9, 2016

During a visit in Iran last month, a delegation from Moscow-based technopark Kalibr signed a memorandum of understanding with two leading Iranian science and technology parks, the Fars and the Khuzestan technoparks. The three-year agreement encompasses several types of cooperation, from synergies between resident companies, to technology transfers between Russian and Iranian industrial companies, to …

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Organisation of Islamic Cooperation teams up with Russia’s IT Park to launch startup accelerator

December 9, 2016

IT Park, a major Russian tech park, has announced the launch of the ‘OIC Startup Platform’ with the support of the Secretariat of the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (IOC). The initiative is also supported by Oxademy, a UK-based online business education provider operating in eight countries, and Selet, an educational initiative in Tatarstan. The acceleration …

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Qiwi is working on a Blockchain energy project in Crimea

August 31, 2017

Qiwi, a Russian payment system operator and one of the country’s most active cryptocurrency players, will launch a test to track energy transactions using Blockchain technology in partnership with Tavrida Electric, one of the world’s leading suppliers of circuit breakers and a global energy smart grid supplier. Each Tavrida Electric transaction will be recorded on …

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Inside Russia’s creepy, innovative Internet

December 1, 2016

“For the past five years, Russia’s been building walls around its web and packing it with tech oligarchs, startup cities, face-finding algorithms, hacker hunters, and, of course, a few bears,” writes Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg Business Week in Hello World, a series of reports about inventors, scientists and technologists who shape our future around the …

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Food giant Cherkizovo teams up with Skolkovo to launch startup accelerator

November 28, 2016

Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, has signed an agreement with Cherkizovo Group, a major Russian meat producer, to create a startup accelerator in the fields of biotech in agriculture and industry. Cherkizovo will rent 120 sq. m. in the technopark to provide a co-working and testing areas, along …

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