Maria Curie

Maria Curie (Sklodowska) - is the Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry scientist, who invented the
radium and the notion of "radioactivity" in early XX century.

She was born in Poland on 1867 and got education in Paris. It was an extremely difficult period of her life because of poverty and complicated curriculum.

Eventually, she got the Master's degree in Mathematics and Physics and met her future husband - Pierre Curie. He was scientist as well, and accompanied Maria in her investigations.

Mde. Curie made researchs on steel until French scientist Becquerel represented the X-Rays of uranium. She was interested and started in her own investigations in this field. Soon Maria found a steel that emitted more powerful rays than element she had known before. It's name is "radium".

This breakthroughs were noted by The Association of Scientists, and she got two Nobel prizes.

DEC and IBM - history of computers

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) is a major hardware and computer producer company, founded by Kenneth Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. The main goal is creating computers for non-professional customers rather than programmers. From 1960s to 1970 company introduced the PDP series, where each new computer was better and cheaper than previous one.

The first Digital's product is PDP-1, which was much less expensive than dominating mainframes of IBM. The next the PDP-8 became the first minicomputer in the world. And the last one - the PDP-11 got popular because of its flexibility and being low in price.

After financials problems in 80s, DEC made an alliance with other leading corporations in the contracts with US Atomic Energy Commission. As the consequence, they closed the parallel between customer-oriented products and computers, made for government.

Another dominating company in this period was IBM. From 60s to 80s it occupied the mainframes market, but lost positions in sphere of high-performance computing.

In 1981 IBM involved the standard for micro-computing. Company introduced their first micro-computer named IBM PC. It's main feature was a compatibility with computers of IBM family.

In 1997 an IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated the Garry Kasparov - the world chess champion. The artificial intelligence reached a brink of its development.

Kazan State Power Engineering University - Review

Kazan State Power Engineering University is one of the most popular university in Tatarstan. It occupies a major place in Russian's energetics sphere.

It is a union of three institutes: Heat and Power Engineering Institute, Electrical Power Engineering Institute and Institute of Economics and Social Technologies.

About 10 000 students are studying in university at the moment. People from another regions enter KSPEU every year as well as from foreign countries. Here work certificated educators. More than 80% have the Phd degree.

KSPEU is a centre of assistant for power engineering specialists. Here you can offer a dissertational councils in different common fields like Thermal power,  Electrical Power Engineering, Physics and so on. You could get an additional information from the university's enormous library as well. Here the scientific staff can use a modern publish-polygrafic complex for publishing books and another scientific literature.

University provides a wide range of activity and culture places, where students are welcome to have their vacation. You can visit KSPEU's sport complex or take part in students social events.