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• Internship at MIT: Active Learning, Virtual Reality, and Entrepreneurial Skills

  …rent fields such as computer science, life sciences, and economics. The seminars were conducted by MIT supervisors, researchers, and professors. The participants had a very specific goal: to learn about the latest pedagogical techniques used at MIT and revise the courses taught at ITMO in accordance with these techniques. The participants learned about modern tool…

  07.09.2018

• ITMO.Highpark Begins New Stage of Development

  …competition has also been launched for the development of a design concept for ITMO.Highpark. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2018. The complete requirements and specifications are published here (link in Russian).…

  04.09.2018

• Why ITMO is More than a University

  …launched the Academic Writing Lab (AWL), which supports and coaches anyone at the university dealing with the challenges of academic writing. They can walk you through your specific project, or you can hone your skills at their workshop or a more in-depth course. Let the world know about your exciting ideas! English for All If you feel like your English skills …

  04.09.2018

• Phylogenetic Trees and Targeted Cancer Research: Bioinformatics Summer School

  …f mutated genes present in lung tumors and identify how they differ from one another, which would in turn have led to a better understanding of the two types of lung cancer specific features. At first we didn’t have a clue how to tackle this enormous task, but later decided to narrow it down to conducting a binary classification. We began by testing different …

  30.08.2018

• Neurotheater as an Instrument of Cognitive Science

  …stems opens up new opportunities and poses lots of questions that we have to solve here and now. For instance, if you’re working with neurotheater, you have to consider the specifics of theatrical art and also think of ways to translate people’s movements and emotions on a screen. Those are complex questions that imply cooperation. We publish the results of our pr…

  29.08.2018

• UC San Diego Assistant Professor on Latest Software Development Trends

  … automating low-level software engineering tasks, which will not only help prevent scores of possible mistakes, but also increase developers’ productivity, to boot. More specifically, we want to give developers the tools to set the general features of a software system (for example, forbidding it to share users’ payment details to third parties) and then automatic…

  29.08.2018

• What’s the Commotion? ITMO Scientists Discover How Obstacles Change Crowd Dynamics

  …oosing to exit a dangerous area, or opting for urgent evacuation. The scientists drew on the PULSE simulation environment to model the human flows behavior. PULSE is specifically used to simulate pedestrian flows during mass gatherings and emergency situations. The program was developed by researchers from ITMO University’s eScience Research Institute in colla…

  27.08.2018

• ITMO University Launches SumIT International StartUp School

  …Angeles. Last year, ITMO’s Business Incubator resumed this program together with colleagues from South Korea. “Our SumIT co-hosting partner choice isn’t limited by one specific country. Last year we expanded our partnership network by establishing contacts with colleagues from South Korea and decided to develop a program focusing on innovative projects that emer…

  24.08.2018

• Sport, Recreation, Intellectual Hobby: What is Birdwatching and How it Helps Scientists

  …ur area. The best of them are made with drawings, not photographs, because professional drawings represent a typical image of a bird and in a photograph you’ll always see a specific individual that may differ from other representatives of its species. There’re now also mobile applications for identifying birds, with the best being Merlin by CornellLab. How pop…

  24.08.2018

• Roger Roger: How to Make Websites Understand Their Users

  …ple. Although nowadays the majority of mobile devices are touch-sensitive, this interaction style is not so widespread in PC computers. There’s a Pointer Events software specification which combines three of the most widely used interaction instruments, which are computer mouse, touch pen, and touch events. In other words, Poiner is an abstraction method which ena…

  23.08.2018