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• Summer School in Finland: Accessible Design and Technologies

  …cessibility engineer vacancies open in the US. Major companies are interested in making their products accessible to all, but there is a lack of specialists with relevant knowledge, as there is a lack of educational programs on the topic. So this course can, in some sense, be seen as unique.  What the school gave me first and foremost was a fresh portion of mo…

  20.08.2019

• ITMO and Moscow State University Scientists Announce an Open Call for a Joint Article Series for Frontiers in Chemistry

  … the breakthrough discovery supports research in an entire range of scientific fields. Metamaterials, biology, physics: specialists of all of these branches of scientific knowledge use the table in their day-to-day work, and the collection’s authors hope to reflect that taking real-life cases as an example. Their particular interests include experimental works, new r…

  16.08.2019

• ITMO Researcher Represents Russia at QKD Security Workshop

  …. It just so happened that I was offered to give a presentation at this year’s event. I think this was due to the fact that our group at ITMO is the only one to pursue cutting-edge ideas and consider different approaches to security proofing of quantum key distribution. Other specialists in Russia prefer to stick to the beaten track, and it’s more difficult to achiev…

  15.08.2019

• 60,000 Steps a Day: ITMO Students on Organizing Mendeleev-150 Conference

  …ul to all of the organizing team because throughout the entire process I knew that someone will always be ready to help. The conference provided me with experience and knowledge that will come in handy in the future. Some became less reluctant to speak with people, including those from other countries, and some acquired the useful habit of checking their emails re…

  14.08.2019

• ITMO Graduate from the Republic of Chad on His University Experience

  …Why and how did you decide to study in Russia? I had been studying maths and physics in one of my country’s universities, and came to Russia to further my maths knowledge through a government scholarship in November of 2000. I started my preparatory year at the Don State Technical University in a small Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. A little later, I switched my m…

  13.08.2019

• Apps to Make Your Student Life Easier

  …own are in high demand. Kahoot allows to create tests, polls, educational games or launch a contest. Simply put, this is a service that helps assess one’s own and others’ knowledge and learn to work as a team. In order to start working with this website, you have to register and specify whether you are a student or a teacher. After that, you are given access t…

  13.08.2019

• Procrastination: Blessing or a Curse?

  …ngs. But we only want to visit the dentist when there’s a need for that. We all have needs, and we react to them. It’s a simple chain of thought: a thought emerges – we acknowledge it – we become motivated – we look for ways to satisfy that need. Needs, or the feelings of psychological, social, or physiological deficit, are what drives us. The American scienti…

  12.08.2019

• Modern Visual Effects: Applications and Software

  …t Pro and Nuke. You can learn more about the different kinds of VFX programs here. Then again, the requirements to becoming a VFX artist involve more than just the knowledge of the associated software. According to the website of the American Rasmussen college, among a VFX artist’s tasks are also: Using computer programs and illustrations to create gr…

  09.08.2019

• How Games are Changing Education

  …pt game mechanics to various educational activities. That’s precisely why the same mechanic can be beneficial in one case, and useless in another. Educational games are full-fledged games in which the mechanics correspond to educational goals. Eric Klopfer and his colleagues from MIT’s Education Arcade program explain how to create immersive educational games in thei…

  09.08.2019

• 15 Talented Prospective Students Become Winners of 2019 ITMO.STARS Unique Achievements Contest

  …ibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and other cities.  As per the main rule of the contest, school students had to provide a real-world proof of their knowledge and skills in the form of independently-developed software or an algorithm, an innovative or research project, a new device or piece of equipment, a social initiative, or awards obtained a…

  08.08.2019