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“Science and Technologies in Society” Master’s Program: Why and How Do Researchers Study Labs and Startups?
… research, what can the students of the program go on to do? The labor market for STS specialists is still forming. But even today, they are already in demand among science management departments. Our graduates will know what really drives science and therefore be able to shape scientific and innovation policies. Their ability to understand connections between sci…
21.04.2020
ITMO University Master’s Student Speaks About Her Internship at T-Systems
…ng with Raspberry Pi, a single-board computer, and this helped me a lot. I didn’t know how to program back then, and yet I got the intern position. What skills have you managed to learn at the internship? Most importantly, professional ones. I was working on the tasks on my own, trying this and that, sometimes starting all over, but it was very useful for m…
21.04.2020
RAEX Ranking 2020: ITMO University Rated Russia’s First in Computer Science
…lity – the University was named the best in Russia. There is also significant success in ITMO’s non-major field – social sciences, as the University came third in business and management for the second year in a row. A new trend is an improvement in the rankings for life sciences: biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, where ITMO University occupies fourth…
20.04.2020
Cosmonaut Training Methods to Apply In Your Daily Life
…se the schedule gets ruined and deadlines are missed. Following a strict schedule one of the things simulated in isolation experiments. Volunteers are accompanied by a team of managers whose goal is to ensure the non-stop mode of the experiment. Absolutely everything takes place at its own time, from morning exercises to bedtime. People in isolation can plan t…
17.04.2020
Zooniverse: Help Study Polar Animals While Staying at Home
…2007. “The main purpose is to help researchers who have large datasets that they cannot analyze themselves or by using computers only,” explains Dr. Grant Miller, project manager at Zooniverse. “To this end, we enable thousands of volunteers to perform simple pattern recognition tasks on the data. A secondary aim is to break down the barriers between professiona…
17.04.2020
Russian and Dutch Researchers on What’s Holding Back a Revolution in Data Storage
…zation, it must have a capacity to reverse polarization as well. However, for a long time this proposition didn’t have any experimental proof. And only in 2017 did researchers manage to switch a ferroelectric with a laser, but this switched state only existed a very short amount of time. “Ferroelectrics appear to be hard to switch with a laser pulse,” continues …
16.04.2020
ITMO Roboticists Developing a Financially Independent Robot Artist
…rged – we couldn’t gain access to the necessary data. So we decided to do things by hand using Microsoft Azure (a cloud computing service for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services – Ed.). For instance, we would take a text or a picture and extract from them a single word that describes them in general terms. We came to a point where …
16.04.2020
Study Abroad at Home: ITMO University Student’s Experience
…ndouts each class. Do you study remotely now? How comfortable is that? It’s quite comfortable, even though my classes didn’t change much. I’m sort of lucky because I managed to attend most of the offline lectures just in time. Now there are fewer classes. What’s left is taught in Zoom, or it can be passed as a project instead of an exam. The professors took…
16.04.2020
Science for Industry of the Future: Photonics Master’s Studies at ITMO University
…Bioengineering and Biotechnical Systems possess wide-ranging knowledge in medicine, chemistry, biology, and optical systems. Another of our programs, Bioeconomics and Resource Management, focuses on energy- and resource-efficient technologies. These are used in chemical, oil and gas, medical, and food industries. Each program includes several specializations that giv…
15.04.2020
ITMO University Scientists Create App to Calculate COVID-19 Infection Risks Based on Human Behavior
…ical modeling of pandemic-related processes. Their aim is to use the research in helping regular citizens, providing decision support for government authorities and industrial management, and improving the safety of public transit networks, retail stores, and other places where people gather en masse. “Our team works on modeling the everyday behavior of peop…
13.04.2020