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• Online Creativity: Crowdsourcing Services to Help Business

  …en volunteers. One of the most successful crowdsourcing platforms was Threadless. It started with public votes for the best designs of clothes printings. At the very beginning winners were offered small cash prizes. But now the project has joint the top services for hand crafted t-shirts and hoodies. Russia’s first crowdsourcing project “Sberbank-21” was made by its …

  12.08.2016

• 2016 Rio Olympics: ITMO University Graduate Takes Bronze in Shooting

  …ems that we are keeping calm, but in fact we are full of excitement. The emotions overtook me and I did two wrong shots." Kirill Grigoryan won lots of prizes. He became a winner at the ISSF World Cup 2015, the World Cup 2015 finalist and received the silver medal at the 2015 Summer Universiade.  The Olympic champion trains under the guidance of his father, Akop …

  12.08.2016

• Ready to Move: Young Coders Share their Career Experience

  …st colleagues who do that by choosing techniques that are used as a base for server infrastructure – from a system software to program frameworks. Most of my colleagues are winners of ACM ICPC, skilled mathematicians. Fortunately I’ve never met problems with communication. We discuss not only work process - sometimes spend free time together. All my friends live i…

  10.08.2016

• ITMO University Welcomes New Students

  …ograms had increased as well. The highest minimal passing grade in ITMO this year was for the Informatics and Applied Mathematics program — 294 points. Choice of contest winners In 2016, ITMO University has become one of the leading Saint Petersburg Universities in welcoming students — winners of all-Russian and international c…

  10.08.2016

• Exploring Innopolis: Russia's Silicon Valley

  … month, I learned that my grant for education was approved. It's worth mentioning that the students are enrolled via a competitive examination, and the university pays for the winner's food and board. In June, I went to the Summer School in Innopolis - this was something like a rehearsal of the educational process which will begin on August 15. I will be studying in …

  05.08.2016

• Bioinformatics Summer School: Where Tech and Biology Come Together

  …wn to be associated with the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Analysis of antibodies in blood serum is a promising diagnosis of the disease. The developers of this project became winners of a contest held at the Summer school. Participants also engaged in research work related to other scientific topics. Those who ran the projects were all leading world scientists. …

  03.08.2016

• The Master’s Program Enrollment Campaign: Bringing in Best Students and Training Elite Specialists

  … of documents for full-time education ends on August, 10th; by that time, we expect around 600 more applications. There are several ways to enter a program at ITMO University: winning a portfolio contest, a contest of reports at the Young Scientists Conference, or passing traditional examinations. This year we’ve also tried conducting distant entrance examinations: n…

  01.08.2016

• Nature Index Names ITMO U as a "Rising Star"

  …indicator, that is, the opinion of the expert community is not counted. This index, on the other hand is based on “absolutes”, or facts, such as the number of Nobel Laureates, winners of the Fields medal in Mathematics from a university, number of citations and publications in journals such as “Nature” and “Science”. In the same way, the growth in the WFC index is an…

  29.07.2016

• Multivitamin Supplements: To Take or not to Take

  …population may be too well-nourished to benefit from a multivitamin.” Why Multivitamins are so popular? In the mid 70-s Linus Pauling, famous chemist and Nobel Prize winner, proved that taking vitamin C helps to treat flu at the early stages as well as strengthens the immune system. Then many pharmaceutical companies started to look for useful properties of…

  27.07.2016

• Cyborg Olympics Exploiting the Power of Technology

  …ich, Mr. Khlebnikov and co-founder of “Motorica”, Ilya Chekh, ITMO University’s graduate, were inspired to initiate a similar event in Moscow on 13 August on the VDNKh square. Winners of the event will be sent to the international event in Zurich to compete. What is a cybathlon? “Cybathlon is a mix between Paralympic games and Formula one” explains Mr. Khlebniko…

  27.07.2016