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

By East-West Digital News, Marchmont News / May 07, 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 person to position his or her face in the camera’s vision range for facial detailing. Indeed, the subject does not even need to know that he or she is being filmed.

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

By East-West Digital News / May 02, 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 stereo information to each viewer individually by tracking the position of the eyes with high tech lenses and micro-projectors. An augmented stereo image is built for each eye in the lens area while the distance between the micro-projectors changes adaptively.

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

By East-West Digital News, Marchmont News / Apr 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

Expanding To Russia With Love by Fabernovel

Report: “Google, the US Yandex”

By FaberNovel, East-West Digital News / Apr 20, 2012 / 2 Comments

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 insights on the country’s innovation model in a historical perspective: from rocket pioneer Tsiolkovsky to cosmonaut Gagarin and on to such notable startups as Displair, Good Roads and ResumUp – which faberNovel sees as having a disruptive value proposition.

Yandex launches search tool for LHC events at CERN

A press release from Yandex / Apr 10, 2012

Moscow – Yandex (YNDX), Russia’s leading search engine, has announced the launch of a search tool service for retrieving Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Events at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. A search tool custom-built by Yandex has been tested for one of four big particle detector experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator.

Yandex’s search service has been designed specifically for the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) studying the interactions of b-hadrons, heavy particles containing the bottom quark, also known as the beauty quark.

Microsoft to bring more technology to Russian academics

Special to East-West Digital News by Oleg Kouzbit in partnership with Marchmont News / Apr 09, 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 computer-based registry of the academy’s intellectual achievements, a data center, and a library, dubbed the “Russian Scientific Legacy.”

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

By East-West Digital News / Mar 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 looking through a futuristic portal that bends space and time,” said the organizers.

Made-in-Skolkovo products get first international clients

By East-West Digital News / Mar 09, 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.

Novosibirsk authorities to attract $1 billion to fund innovation in Akademgorodok

By Ekaterina Preobrazhenskaya, East-West Digital News / Jan 04, 2012

The authorities of the Novosibirsk region in Siberia announced their intention to create a world-class innovation center in Akademgorodok, a major academic and scientific hub. The regional government will invest 10 billion rubles, or approximately $330 million, in the project by 2017, and expects the total investment from various sources to reach as much as $1 billion, Baikal 24 reported in late December.

Their plan is to create sixteen R&D centers in Akademgorodok, in addition to the four centers already present.

‘Russian Windows’ prototype receives government approval

By East-West Digital News / Dec 30, 2011

The Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media approved on Tuesday the prototype of a Linux based operating system scheduled to become Russia’s national OS.

The government plans to equip school and public administration computers across the country with the new OS, thereby saving considerable amounts in software licenses, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported.

Category: R&D

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

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

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

Report: “Google, the US Yandex”

Yandex launches search tool for LHC events at CERN

Microsoft to bring more technology to Russian academics

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

Made-in-Skolkovo products get first international clients

Novosibirsk authorities to attract $1 billion to fund innovation in Akademgorodok

‘Russian Windows’ prototype receives government approval

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