The Chairmen Fireside session at DLD Moscow gave the audience the unique opportunity to witness a great discussion between two fascinating minds: DLD chairman Yossi Vardi and Skolkovo Foundation President Viktor Vekselberg. The Skolkovo Foundation, which...
THE guards at the gate kept your correspondent waiting for half an hour. The taxi driver didn’t have the right papers, apparently. “We know that Russia’s bureaucracy is a big problem. That’s part of what we want to solve,” says...
One of the documents signed during Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin's state visit to China on 5-7 June 2012 will be a cooperation agreement between the Skolkovo Foundation and the Beijing-based Z-Park. This agreement marks a transition to full...
Microsoft plans to invest tens of millions of dollars in research and development program in Russia. The plans to house the Microsoft R&D Center in Skolkovo were first announced on Nov. 1, 2010 during a meeting of Microsoft head Steve Ballmer...
From Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Bladerunner,” to “RoboCop” and “Terminator,” visions of a future controlled by robots, supercomputers and artificial intelligence have often been dystopian...