Rustam Minnikhanov is on working trip in Pittsburgh (USA)

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has arrived in Pittsburgh (USA, Pennsylvania) with a working visit. The trip is mainly aimed at acquaintance with activity of Carnegie Mellon University to use it further in the context of training IT specialists and implementing the project of innovative satellite city “Innopolis”.

Rustam Minnikhanov is accompanied by Tatarstan’s Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov, Aide to RT President Radik Gimatdinov, rector of the Kazan Federal University Ilshat Gafurov, and trade representative of the Republic of Tatarstan in USA Ravil Nigmetzyanov.

The Tatarstan President is going to visit iCarnegie headquarters, School of Architecture of Carnegie Mellon University, Entertainment Technology Center, Robotics Center and Carnegie Science Center. Besides, several meetings with the university leadership are planned.

To the point, representatives of iCarnegie (IT division of Carnegie University) visited Tatarstan in July 2012. They were interested in cooperation in some areas.

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Carnegie Mellon University is a private university and research center located in Pittsburgh (USA, Pennsylvania).It was founded in 1967 after merging of Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded by a famous industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1900 as Carnegie Technical School) and Mellon Institute of Industrial Research.

Main campus of the university is located close by the Pittsburgh business center. The university focuses on science and technology research, innovations in the sphere of robotics and artificial intelligence. It is also known in many other spheres, such as management, economics and linguistics.

Education in the sphere of computer technology, economy, product design, art management in the entertainment industry, social and management sciences and fine art is considered one of the best in USA.

According to ranking 2011-2012 of the leading British edition Times Higher Education, London Carnegie University was ranked 15th in USA and 21st in the world.

Almost one third of university students are natives of 100 countries. The university consists of seven schools and colleges. There are campuses in New York, Washington, Silicon Valley and Hollywood.