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• Pop Goes the Bubble: A Quick Guide to Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and ICOs

  …ed on smart contracts. In order to raise funds, a company releases its own Ethereum tokens. With purchase of each token, users receive ownership of a part of the company as specified in their contract. When ICOs first appeared, the technology garnered an enormous amount of attention. Users would funnel their money into tokens without paying attention to the qualit…

  10.04.2019

• University of Mexico’s Carlos Gershenson: Computers Are Telescopes With Which We Study Complex Systems

  … constants. For a while now, medical specialists have been promoting the concept of personalized medicine, wherein patients are thoroughly examined and given a selection of specific drugs instead of one common drug for all. To understand the influence of complex systems analysis on modern science, we need only recall how research was done before. Scientists ai…

  08.04.2019

• Programming Music with Sonic Pi: A How-To

  …ery much alike. What do programmers and musicians have in common? Both music and programming are an art. Or, in other words, a type of activity that doesn’t imply one specific route to a successful result. There are no ready algorithms that would allow you to create a certain musical hit, in the same way that there are no ready algorithms that would allow you t…

  08.04.2019

• Startup Veteran on Beginners’ Common Mistakes: A Founder’s Main KPI is Staying Alive

  …tween startup and contract work Don’t think that contractual employment is nothing. Quite the contrary, it is a way to build your career. Of course, it limits you with a specific area of responsibility, but in California, for instance, you’ll make much more at a company than at a startup. Being an entrepreneur is more interesting and more difficult. You may sti…

  05.04.2019

• ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering Launches a Projects Contest

  …an indeed see that project activities are very effective in terms of motivation and education of students. Unlike the routine and often templated lab work, projects imply a specific problem and various ways for it to be solved. In essence, what we give to the students is an opportunity to learn in an exciting and informative way,” explains the vice dean of the Facult…

  04.04.2019

• CodeX Founder Petr Savchenko on the Team’s Next-Gen Software Editor.js: Block Editors Are the Future

  …uite a footprint, and changing the name can be a setback, but it was better done sooner than later. What makes it so difficult to create a visual editor? It’s quite a specific type of software, and a difficult one. All of today’s popular editors are full of bugs. Even Microsoft Word comes with a great deal of troubles; people even make memes about it along the …

  04.04.2019

• ITMO University’s Master’s Degree Programs in 2019: Don’t Miss Your Opportunity

  …he oftentimes inert, and therefore uncompetitive, large companies. Finally, the fourth type are corporate Master’s programs. These programs are run in collaboration with specific companies and are primarily focused on fulfilling the demands of the job market. A program may be developed with one or several industrial partners; it could be a rather large number of c…

  03.04.2019

• I am a Professional: Gold Medal Winners Share Their Experience

  …nt at ITMO’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, became gold medal winner in the Mechanical Engineering track in the first season of “I am a Professional”. I didn’t specifically train for the competition. When I came to the on-site round, I took a look at the tasks and understood that I remembered a lot from the basic training I got as a Bachelor’s student at…

  03.04.2019

• Yandex Zen: A User’s Manual

  …About Yandex Zen In the words of the website itself, Yandex Zen is an “endless feed of content selected with a specific user in mind. Zen is constantly searching the internet to find information potentially interesting for you and you alone and combines the best of the best in your personal feed.” Though sounding great, this description leaves us none the wiser as…

  03.04.2019

• Gamified Education and Blockchain for IPs: Winners of Potanin Foundation’s Grant Competition

  …: a “talking head” talks on the topic of choosing business partners. Then, we consider the various choices and possible outcomes. Which option do you choose if you expect a specific result? Which strategy should you adhere to, how do you achieve that result? Then, we show the forms and methods of partnership that could be used to produce the desired results,” says Pr…

  02.04.2019