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• Maps to Rovers: the History of Mars Exploration

  …eceive a great deal of other information. When Opportunity inspected meteorites, for instance, it shot them in seven different spectrums. Curiosity Curiosity is a full-fledged Martian chemical lab, equipped with 17 multi-purpose cameras. Unlike other Mars rovers, its size is comparable to that of an actual car. Its most powerful camera has only 2 megapixels, wh…

  08.01.2019

• ITMO University and NEC Corporation to Cooperate on Development of Infocommunication Technologies

  …d software modules, need to be adapted for the general use. Simply passing these technologies on to an expert institution is not enough for them to become a successful, full-fledged product; this complex goal requires the creation of a cohesive community and ecosystem. It is for this that the company enlisted the help of ITMO University. The representatives of the…

  29.12.2018

• Creative Technologies: A New Core Course at ITMO University

  …help them prepare for tests. The course is structured such as to introduce the students to a new topic each week and give them the opportunity to consolidate the newfound knowledge through practice. The final part of the course involves active casework in small teams. This year, the students were given a choice between 85 cases, one for each five-person team, incl…

  28.12.2018

• Business Games, or How to Pass Exams Without Taking Exams and Get a Job Without an Interview

  …unities for active networking of students and stakeholders to everyone’s benefit. Information was a more exclusive resource before, as it was teachers who accumulated the knowledge and passed them on to students. Now, when all of the world’s libraries can be accessed via so little as a phone, a modern lecturer’s task is to guide students through the data clusters out…

  28.12.2018

• Scientists Create First Topological Nanostructures Which Make Infrared Light Visible

  …olled nonlinear light generation. In a series of further experiments, the researchers confirmed that the nonlinear light generation proceeds resonantly from topological edge states of photons at the edges of the array. Then the scientists examined the degree of which the nonlinear optical properties of a nanostructure depend on i…

  27.12.2018

• HAKORA: Building a Business in the Field of AR

  …e; oftentimes, we advise the clients on how to act in particular cases, and our recommendations have always worked out well. How did you you grow from a startup to a full-fledged company? Roman Shiplyakov: We officially founded our company in May 2018, though the HAKORA project had existed for a couple of years already. During the first year, we've been analyzi…

  26.12.2018

• ITMO University Awards Its First Academic Degrees

  …use efficient European practices here as well. In the West, the academic degree system has a lot in common with ours: their boards consists of specialists who have a keen knowledge of the field in question. Our old system featured people from different subject fields, therefore some of the boards' members weren't knowledgeable enough to…

  25.12.2018

• Mind Maps, Open Spaces, and Cooking Contests: ITMO Staff Visit UK’s Oxford Brookes University

  …ed by their teachers. Students can use the forums, chatrooms and private messaging services to get in touch with teachers and other students at any point. What gives Moodle an edge over its counterparts is constant development (the latest version is dated March 12, 2018) and open-source code. Roman Polozkov, an associate professor at ITMO University’s Faculty of P…

  21.12.2018

• From Sunshine to Freezing Cold: An Ecuadorian’s Experience of Russia

  …tics. I find it a bit hard to keep up with the programming aspect of my studies. In Ecuador, we don’t have any programming classes at school, and so I came here with zero knowledge on the topic, while my fellow students from Russia already knew the ropes. The maths here is more advanced when compared to the level it is taught in Ecuador, which is good. I really enjoy…

  20.12.2018

• ITMO Launches New Master’s Program ‘Bioeconomics and Resource Management’

  …s but also educate them about project management. For that purpose, the program includes a large set of managerial and economic subjects, which will provide students with knowledge and skills from the fields of economics, logistics, resource management and more. A modern specialist with a major in economics must be able to analyze the market environment, predi…

  20.12.2018