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• ITMO Technopark Resident Wins International Contest On Blockchain Applications For Self-Driving Cars

  …ormation as it is being updated. Likewise, our colleagues from IOTA are already offering a solution that enables communication between devices on the basis of the distributed ledger Tangle. According to Reuters, some banks are already using the Ripple blockchain protocol for cross-border payments,” explains Alexander Kapitonov. Right now the startup is busy impl…

  26.02.2019

• How Researchers Use Big Data to Fight HIV and Addiction

  …anisms have produced this data. That’s why we need models. The “data-free” models are theoretical models that stem not from any specific data, but from the experience and knowledge humanity has acquired, and these models can be built. The classic model of an infectious disease (the Kermack–McKendrick theory) was established in 1927. It was theoretical and based on…

  25.02.2019

• Helping Sleepwalkers, Fighting Excessive Snow and Ensuring Better Security on Campus: Best Projects by 2019 “It’s Your Call!” Participants

  …competition “I am a Professional”. A total of 180 students from 39 cities all over Russia came to ITMO University to attend lectures by leading experts, work in ITMO’s cutting-edge laboratories, visit trendsetting companies and take part in academic and sports competitions. It is for the second time in a row that ITMO University organizes the school together with Sbe…

  25.02.2019

• ITMO University and Government of Moscow’s Department for Education and Science to Launch IT Classes in City’s Schools

  …nitiators of the “IT classes” project, this training will help soon-to-be graduates make an informed choice of their future career and obtain high-quality preprofessional knowledge necessary for successful studies at leading universities specializing in this field. As noted by the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin, it is this kind of education that is gradually becomin…

  22.02.2019

• Yandex Director of Marketing Andrey Sebrant: We’re Living in the Age of Implementation

  …e: there are always two stages in the development of any technology or science. First comes the “age of discovery”, marked by genius solutions and expansion of scientific knowledge, and it is followed by the “age of implementation” when breakthrough discoveries are given practical applications. That’s when individuals are less important than the number of entrepreneu…

  22.02.2019

• Forbes Science and Technology Editor on Communicating Research

  …sia at the time of global warming. You can do it far better than a journalist and thus help them focus on the important aspects. We all know either things that are common knowledge or things that have to do with our professional field. Don't forget that your profession is one of your most prized resources. Also, do remember that people like to read about their cou…

  22.02.2019

• Unexplored Saint Petersburg: The Bolshoi State Circus

  … that falls around the arena as the drumroll rocks the house. It was pure magic. As the live orchestra took their first note and the curtain lifted, giddy kids slid to the edge of their seats to watch riders do death-defying tricks on galloping horses and equilibrists rise all to the way to the top of the dome. As the show progressed, clowns do silly, but also aw…

  22.02.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 23-24

  …e numerous Russian monarchs apart? Don’t know a thing about Nicholas I and Alexander II’s regimes? Worry not. There’s no better place to help you fill in the gaps in your knowledge of Russian history than St. Petersburg, the former capital of the Russian Empire. This Sunday, February 24, the mysterious St. Michael’s Castle (the one where the Russian Emperor Paul I wa…

  20.02.2019

• Career Guidance Hackathon: Winning Projects

  …year's hackathon, the level of the recent projects was even higher, and there were no poor ones. The students were really passionate about their work, and showed advanced knowledge in their corresponding fields." According to Elizaveta Kobets, the career guidance hackathon is already becoming an annual event. In 2020, the organizers plan to invite speakers with …

  20.02.2019

• Lectures on International Business and a Medieval Feast: ITMO Master's Student on the Winter School at the Prague University of Finance and Administration

  …me he had an opportunity to compare different reactions on live examples. You could feel the difference in training. Participants from Europe had already acquired some knowledge in the field of international business at their universities, for example, they knew a lot about the operation of the World Trade Organization and the World Bank, which I knew next to noth…

  20.02.2019