Partners

Crocus Technology has received a contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) for the development of 8-bit per cell memory based on its proprietary Magnetic Logic Unit technology, according to a report by RIA Novosti that cites a news release from Crocus.

IARPA is a U.S. research agency under the Director of National Intelligence’s responsibility.

Kaspersky Lab has agreed to work closely with the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI). This was announced after a meeting between Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, Ronald Noble, INTERPOL Secretary General, and Noboru Nakatani, IGCI Executive Director, held on March 19, 2013 at Kaspersky Lab’s headquarters in Moscow.

Russia’s Skolkovo innovation hub and Oxford Entrepreneurs, the largest student society at Oxford University and the biggest free business and entrepreneurship society in Europe, have announced a joint call for innovative projects from students and alumni of the prestigious British university.

The competition is designed to attract top talent and promising international teams to the Skolkovo ecosystem, as well as promote the tech cluster’s brand on the world stage. The business competition will be held in two phases.

MIT Technology Review, an independent media company founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has become a Knowledge Producer for the Open Innovations Forum in Russia.  MIT Technology Review produces publications read by a global community of nearly five million business leaders, innovators, developers, tech entrepreneurs, academics, and government officials in six languages and on a variety of digital and print platforms.

Intel has announced it will open an updated training and research laboratory at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (CMC) at Moscow State University (MSU). The expanded cooperation between the industry leader and the university will allow students and faculty to develop new courses and solve research problems relevant to the industry in conjunction with leading experts from Intel.

Yandex, Russia’s largest Internet company, has entered into an agreement with the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) according to reports by RIA Novosti.

In anticipation of the Year of Russia in the Netherlands (2013) a seminar was organized in The Hague by the Westholland Foreign Investment Agency, RUSSOFT and IT Park Belarus.

The seminar was attended by about 100 people from over 40 IT companies from Russia, Belarus and the Netherlands. Also attending were representatives of the Russian Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands, a number of Belorussian and Dutch government agencies, and representatives of Dutch universities.