Algorithms exploiting light’s polarization boost resolution of commercial depth sensors 1,000-fold. MIT researchers have shown that by exploiting the polarization of light — the physical phenomenon behind polarized sunglasses and most 3-D...
Skolkovo celebrated its fifth birthday in style on Monday, receiving recognition from Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as an innovation center of global standing. Dmitry Medvedev speaking at the Google Hangout. Photo: sk.ru Medvedev, who signed the...
Skoltech invited allcomers to the next in a series of lectures and discussions on the latest research trends, Sci Talks. Sci Talks 2.2 focused on photonics and quantum materials. Click here for a photogallery from the event at the Skolkovo Hypercube...
Four years after the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) was founded, the startup university has finally moved into its own purpose-built campus, and has succeeded in luring accomplished Russian diaspora scientists back to Russia after periods...
A powerful new data center has come online at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, allowing the post-grad innovations university to undertake complex number-crunching, algorithm processing and video analysis without leaving the building. ...
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich welcomed students on the Stanford US-Russia Forum (SURF) to Skoltech this week, urging young scientists do their utmost to influence politicians at such events. Arkady Dvorkovich with SURF students at Skoltech...
In his silver and white acamedic robe, Skoltech president Ed Crawley rang the school bell on Monday to usher in the innovation university’s fourth academic year amid record intake figures and its most geographically diverse cohort yet. Skoltech...
As the new academic year draws closer, it was announced this week that a robot designed by a Skoltech students is to attend class in place of children whose disabilities prevent them from leaving home. Webot in action. Photo: Skoltech Webot, developed...
Computer-aided design giant Autodesk has signed a cooperation agreement with the Skolkovo Foundation to potentially provide software support to resident startups and Skoltech students. Skolkovo's Alexandra Barshchevskaya, left, and Autodesk's...
The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) has selected a paper by Professor Alessandro Golkar and Skoltech President Edward Crawley to receive the Systems Engineering journal’s 2014 Best Paper of the Year Award, reports the university’s...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev extended his congratulations to Skoltech’s first graduates on Wednesday, ceremonially awarding the first diploma at Startup Village. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, somewhere in the melee of graduates. Photo...
The first batch of Skoltech students will celebrate the end of their last year of study in a ceremony at Startup Village, the innovation university’s vice president Alexei Sitnikov told sk.ru. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with Skoltech student...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
One of the world’s leading authorities on personal robots has delivered two lectures at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, promoting his hypothesis that the robot society of the future may come sooner than we think. Professor Hiroshi...
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, world renowned for his research in robot clones, is to hold two special guest lectures at the Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology. The Japanese robotics scientist from Osaka University, who was the subject of the...
The Skolkovo Innovation Center on March 20-22 hosted the third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference, one of the biggest events of its kind in Russia. More than 2,000 registered for the three-day bonanza , which bought together robot developers, company...
The third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference was a runaway success, attracting a wide array of participants from all corners of the planet and, critically, encouraging the discipline to flourish domestically. The March 20-22 event at the Skolkovo...
In building the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, it would be an “extraordinary waste of energy” to simply create another MIT, the president of the fledgling Russian innovations university, Ed Crawley, has said in televised remarks....
A key message that Skolkovo transmits its startups is the need to expand into new territories. Now it is leading by example: This week, Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow ventures abroad for the first time in its five-year history. Almaty - the...
Russian-Finnish collaborative research that scientists hope could usher in a new age of consumer electronics took a first tentative step this month, as Skoltech students traveled to Helsinki to study nanomaterials. Photo: skoltech.ru The joint initiative...
Researchers at Skoltech Center for Advanced Structures, Processes and Engineered Materials (ASPEM) claim they may have produced the strongest 3D printed composite material in the world. Antonov holding up the composite material. Photo: skoltech.ru ...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is publishing a database of its students’ startup businesses online to promote transparency and boost exposure. The Skoltech Projects website. Photo: projects.skoltech.ru The “Skoltech...
Sergei Krikalev, the man who has spent the most time in space at 803 days, has joined the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology as a professor of practice. Krikalev giving a talk at Skoltech as a guest in September. Photo: sk.ru Krikalev...
The most creative period in the academic year of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology kicked off Tuesday as students ditched their textbooks to learn everything from snowboarding to stock trading. The independent studies period (ISP) window is...
A prominent US diplomat said Monday that Skolkovo’s partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is more important now than ever. In opening remarks at the US-Russia Research Symposium in the Russian capital, Jeffrey Sexton, minister...