CNN Money has some enlightening statistics about Siberia's (Russia) Tech Potential:
"Every year, Russia graduates as many science and technology specialists as India - 200,000 - although Russia is 80 percent smaller by population."
"Russia's software exports total $1.8 billion annually; the country is the third-largest software-outsourcing destination in the world, after China and India."
"For 30 years Novosibirsk was one of the smartest cities in the imperium, a collective of academics who put their minds to everything from nuclear physics to theoretical genetics, from the space program to the weapons aimed at the great American evil......
... Now IT offices are springing up all around Akademgorodok's leafy lanes and industrial back alleys."
"None of our programmers in Novosibirsk are programmers by education," Intel's Chase says. "They are physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians. They are, first of all, scientists. Secondly, they learn how to program as an afterthought."
For the complete article, go here: [Part 1] [Part 2]
"Every year, Russia graduates as many science and technology specialists as India - 200,000 - although Russia is 80 percent smaller by population."
"Russia's software exports total $1.8 billion annually; the country is the third-largest software-outsourcing destination in the world, after China and India."
"For 30 years Novosibirsk was one of the smartest cities in the imperium, a collective of academics who put their minds to everything from nuclear physics to theoretical genetics, from the space program to the weapons aimed at the great American evil......
... Now IT offices are springing up all around Akademgorodok's leafy lanes and industrial back alleys."
"None of our programmers in Novosibirsk are programmers by education," Intel's Chase says. "They are physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians. They are, first of all, scientists. Secondly, they learn how to program as an afterthought."
For the complete article, go here: [Part 1] [Part 2]
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