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• Blockchain Community Meetup: What Is Mining About?

  …ists in the field of blockchain; the 7th meetup, for instance, was intended for students. The organizers expected people who know little about blockchain, so they chose two specific topics and two popular ones that would be more comprehensible to the newcomers. Thus, the first two presentations were dedicated to random numbers and the problems of developing decent…

  31.01.2018

• ITMO Graduate Nadia Polikarpova on Working at MIT and UC San Diego

  …h that I could probably try my hand at that, too. But I can say with confidence that science is more interesting – especially the field I work in: programming languages and specifically the area of formal methods. The most important thing and one I like most is that our area combines theory and practice. On the one hand, you get to develop new technology and p…

  29.01.2018

• Here's How ITMO's New Academic Degree System Will Work

  …s’ experience and forming our own concept; we utilize the best practices, but, of course, we will try to take into account the tasks and challenges faced by ITMO University specifically. We’ve also looked at some of the international practices. For example, we’ve already visited some of our partner universities, like the University of Lille, University of Le Mans …

  29.01.2018

• Neural Networks Can Identify Any Person’s Age

  …external, independent data. It turned out that the network that learned from the overall data on all populations made 10% less mistakes than those that learned from data on specific populations” This research was conducted in collaboration with the Insilico Medicine company which focuses on using artificial intelligence for studying ageing and the development …

  26.01.2018

• ITMO and Partners Hold Open Data Hackathon

  …ble solutions but the one that worked was the simplest of all”, said one of the participants from the St. Petersburg Academic University team. While the task was quite specific, besides the formal requirements, the participants of the Hackathon had to decide and suggest what technology should be used to analyze periodically-published open data in order to solve …

  23.01.2018

• Generation Z: Who Are They?

  …bator of ITMO University). Everyone could choose the topic and then all the students were divided among the companies that each presented their cases. BIOCAD’s case was not specifically about Generation Z, but focused on how to build an effective team. Since I chose new concepts of workforce management as a topic for my master's thesis, BIOCAD’s cases drew my attenti…

  23.01.2018

• Climate Change: What the Future Holds

  …dry loving species. Changes in vegetation also contribute to changes in the animal world. For example, Finnish and Australian researchers noted that animals dependent on specific foods are the first to become threatened. For example, lemurs from Madagascar eat mainly bamboo leaves. But in periods of drought they may temporarily survive on bamboo stems. If dry peri…

  22.01.2018

• ITMO Scientists' Collaboration with German and Swiss Colleagues Wins ERA.Net Research Grant

  … capable of analyzing each individual cell, which means that another task is to increase the devices’ sensitivity, making them more useful when attempting to detect various specific pathogenic microorganisms. Why is so difficult to ramp up the sensitivity? First of all, the less cells that are to be examined, the less the amount of fluorescence. Secondly, it must …

  22.01.2018

• First Renga Software Authorized Training Center Slated to Open at ITMO University

  …asks require top programmers – and programmers from ITMO, as we well know, are some of the best. In other words, this program is intended to train specialists for whichever specific field – construction, instrumentation, etc. This is why it’s important to keep in mind that BIM is a technology that’s not just for builders of designers; a lot of things in this field ar…

  18.01.2018

• Dimensions: New Analysis Platform Makes Science Trends Analysis Easier

  …r Science Communication. Data from Dimensions may also be used for in-depth analysis of various scientific matters, he adds. For example, one can analyze the effect of specific economic factors on specific studies. This is just one example; all on all, this kind of analysis will help predict the development of research and provide …

  17.01.2018