Category: Education & training
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
Dnevnik.ru, Russia’s first social educational network, was honored last week as one of the of the best e-learning and educational websites at the World Summit Award 2011.
A free, nationwide school network, Dnevnik.ru was established in 2007. The site currently serves 16,000 schools and over 3 million pupils, parents, teachers, and school administrators.
Just days after Texdrive, Russia’s first international startup accelerator, opened in Moscow, the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) announced in late October the creation of its own startup accelerator in partnership with US venture fund RSV Venture Partners.
Operations will start early in 2012 at the university-hosted startup accelerator, ITMO’s Public Relations manager Yury Shkolnikov told East-West Digital News.
A three-year collaboration program for the development of a graduate level research university was signed last week in Moscow by MIT President Susan Hockfield and Skolkovo Foundation President Viktor Vekselberg. The new institution will be located in Skolkovo, the state sponsored innovation hub under completion near Moscow.
The university, named Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology, or SkTech, will open its doors next year for its first 20 students and is planned to consist of 15 research centers for 1,200 graduate, 300 postgraduate students and 200 faculty members by 2014. MIT Professor of Engineering Edward Crawley has been appointed president of the institute.
Leading Russian microelectronic device maker Sitronics signed a commercial agreement earlier this week with Tech Mahindra, a major provider of solutions and services to the telecom industry. Tech Mahindra will promote the OSS/BSS-solutions of Sitronics India on the local market and may participate in the Russian company’s R&D programs, Sitronics announced.
Sitronics has also set up a competence center in India jointly with Shyam Teleservices, a local mobile operator working under the MTS brand, reported ComNews.ru, a Russian site specializing in telecom market news. Both companies are subsidiaries of Sistema, a diversified Russian conglomerate.
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (SIST) recently announced that it’s first president will be MIT professor Edward Crawley. In making the announcement, Viktor Vekselberg, president of the Skolkovo Foundation, said that the 56-year-old American scientist, who specializes in space exploration, was the “number one candidate.”
Crawley was selected for his knowledge of Russian, connections to Russian scientific world and talent as a manager, among other assets. According to colleagues, Crawley is one of the pioneers of commercializing science.
Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom, US software giant Microsoft, and top Russian enterprise software publisher 1S signed agreements to jointly develop cloud computing projects.
Appointed in March by the Russian government to develop a national cloud computing platform by 2015, Rostelecom announced its intention to invest more than ten billion rubles (approximately $357 million) into the project.
Last week, Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the Board of Rusnano, presented Russian PM Vladimir Putin with an e-reader prototype from Plastic Logic, a world leader in plastics electronics, reported news agency RIA Novosti. If current tests being held in some Russian schools are successful, the tablet could be used on a massive scale in the Russian educational system to replace printed textbooks. Continue reading
Dassault Systèmes and the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) announced a “strategic partnership” last week that will include the provision of Dassault Systèmes IT solutions and internships in France for the Russian students.
The Moscow State Automobile and Road Technical University (MADI) and the Scientific Center for Complex Transportation Problems of the Ministry of Transport have reached an agreement with IBM for the creation of an academic competence center dedicated to IBM solutions in the area of intelligent transportation systems.
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