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• Blockchain’s Pro’s And Con’s: Sberbank Specialists Share

  …Sberbank Technologies emerged as result of Sberbank transforming from a classical financial structure in an IT company. Everyone remembers the sad story of such late industry leaders as Kodak, Nokia, Polaroid - those that failed to change in the conditions of a constantly developing world. If a company doesn’t change its business model, it eventually fails, believes …

  19.01.2018

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

  …Perepelitsa and Evgeny Shuvalov. Credit: rengabim.com Renga Software is a joint project of two major Russian companies – 1C and ASCON. ITMO and ASCON, too, have a lengthy history of partnership in the field of higher education: the university’s students take internships at the company, while Master’s students write their theses under the supervision of ASCON’s exp…

  18.01.2018

• How to Deal with Exam Stress: Advice from Scientists

• Social Media: Does It Change Us? Here’s What Science Thinks

  …A bit of history ICQ, the world’s first messenger software in the modern sense of the word, launched in 1996. However, the website Six Degrees, launched a year later, is considered to have been the first actual “social network”, letting users set up personal pages, find friends and exchange files. This means that social media is now barely more than 20 years old. …

  12.01.2018

• Time Management: Ideas You Can Use

  …on in question choice on spending time / managing activities at their own time and expediency, as Stella Cottrell puts it in her book The Study Skills Handbook. Brief History of Time Management The roots of time management go back to the business world. The industrial revolution of the 19th century and the rise of factories created a need to come up with a …

  09.01.2018

• Joint PhD Programs: Recent Graduates Share

  …ing abroad is a very important stage of their careers, as it is the time when they get new knowledge and experience that they can bring back. Our country has a long-standing history of developing science, but it hasn’t been long since science started to get stable financing. In many foreign countries, they have it different, which is why they’ve succeeded in creating…

  09.01.2018

• Exchange Student Shares: “I was truly surprised by the city”

  …s in Russia and was given a choice between St. Petersburg and Tomsk. I am glad to have chosen St. Petersburg, as I had heard that it’s a beautiful city with rich culture and history. It’s kind of the European version of Russia. I’ve been impressed with how polite everyone is and how clean things are – I’ve been told it’s not like that everywhere, especially in smalle…

  08.01.2018

• Seven Words that Describe ITMO in 2017

  …mming team became World Champions at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, which took place in Rapid City, SD (USA), setting a new record in the history of the contest. No other university has been able to win the Cup seven times.  The team was personally congratulated by Prime Minister Medvedev soon after and later acknowledged by Presid…

  29.12.2017

• Fireworks and Palaces: New Years in St. Petersburg

  …to a single grand festival that goes on for weeks; celebrating the New Year is one of Russia’s most hallowed traditions and one you absolutely can’t miss out on. Though the story of New Year as a holiday in Russia is quite complex (you can read more about it in our last year’s article), the gist of the holiday is to simply have fun and make unique memories. As tem…

  26.12.2017

• Future Technologies Accelerator Unveils New Projects Lineup

  …supervised by a mentor who will help with any emerging problems. This time, the Future Technologies accelerator accepted 25 projects - the highest number in the program’s history. According to Andrei Myasnikov, head of the accelerator, more and more startups that correspond to the selection criteria - having a ready prototype or technology or working with a techno…

  20.12.2017