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• ITMO.Superheroes: Alfa Bank Northwest’s Head of IT on Secrets of Success

  …ware-software suite for automatized testing of university, school and kindergarten students for my university’s Psychology Department. Dmitry Sorikyan That was when I discovered my first life principle. Whenever I write or make something, I do it in such a way that any future changes would require minimal fumbling with the code; all parameters must be easily …

  27.11.2017

• WUD@ITMO: Future of Human-Machine Interaction

  … processes that emerge in it. All of these novelties have to do with the term autopoiesis, which was introduced in early 1970s by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to define systems that create and sustain themselves. Living organisms and communication are such organisms; there are attempts to describe the immune system as such, as well. …

  23.11.2017

• ITMO Grad's Journey From Student to Kaspersky Lab Developer

  …rather change the situation, not the attitude towards it. After all, if I had not decided to change jobs and thus got to work at Kaspersky Lab, then perhaps I would have been discouraged and lost all interest in my field. Kaspersky Lab subscribes to this philosophy of "changing the situation" also, I think: employees there can switch between the departments and fulfi…

  23.11.2017

• Physics Is No Longer To Explain The World, Rather Predict Its Future

  …Myths and misconceptions common for popular science formats It was mentioned in the film that it is impossible to move at a speed greater than the speed of light. However, it’s possible. For example, the X-rays and Gamma radiation of a sufficiently large frequency propagate in matter at phase speed which is higher than the speed of light in  vacuum. However, it tu…

  20.11.2017

• Gravity Waves and Graphene: How Nobel-Winning Research Moves Humanity Forward

  …ays the first lector, professor Alexander Ivanchik from the Ioffe Institute. In 1936, the award was split between the two scientists, Victor F. Hess and Carl D. Anderson, who discovered cosmic radiation and the positron, respectively. In 1974, it was given to Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish for their work in radio astrophysics, namely the disco<…

  20.11.2017

• Alena Shchelokova, Presidential Scholarship Recipient: To Achieve Something, You Have to Get Over Yourself

  …competitions in school. Point is, these kinds of events have you solve non-standard tasks in a limited time frame. And this stress makes your brain work differently, lets you discover the capabilities you had but never even knew about. Also, as I was getting ready for my first presentation at a conference, I was really scared, I doubted myself, yet I did my presen…

  16.11.2017

• ITMO University Hosts GoTo Project School

  …stly: one does not need expensive legal services.  What’s the problem with GoTo’s current grant system? Organizers publish tasks and give the participants who solve them a discount or free tuition; the solutions are sent as e-mails. With this setup, some messages may be lost, and the system is not transparent to sponsors and participants. We've developed a platfor…

  15.11.2017

• 5 Science News Now

  …comparison with conventional white lighting. Frequent alcohol drinking kills new brain cells. Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston recently discovered that alcohol killed the stem cells residing in adult mouse brains. Because the brain stems cells create new nerve cells and are important to maintaining normal cognitive function, thi…

  13.11.2017

• Physicist Maxim Gorlach on getting ahead in science: "The worst scenario is to just drift with the tide".

  …essional" - the recently started academic competition - gives its winners an opportunity to get into the best universities of the country as Master’s or Ph.D. students and be discovered by major employers. At some point, winning an academic competition became a real chance for you to get into the university of your choice. In your opinion, how does a future specialis…

  10.11.2017

• WCSJ-2017: Making Science More Popular Than Politics

  …Russia and ITMO University in particular. This year, more than 1,300 science journalists, scientists, and representatives of companies and foundations have come to San Francisco; however, Russia was only represented by employees of ITMO’s Center for Scientific Communication – Dmitry Malkov and Alexandra Borissova. Alexandra is also the co-founder of AKSON and will…

  10.11.2017