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

  …to get over yourself and leave your comfort zone. I understood that when I started to participate in  academic 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 gett…

  16.11.2017

• ITMO University Hosts GoTo Project School

  …ain is less costly: 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 devel…

  15.11.2017

• Tournament of the Two Capitals: St. Petersburg to Host Robots Battles This Autumn

  …procedure has five main parts. T2S consists of five competitions. They, in turn, are divided into two groups by age.  Schoolchildren of 10 to 14 years of age are offered to solve the tasks "King of the Hill" and "Bridges". In the first of the two, the robots must capture the top of the improvised "mountain" and not allow their competitors to get there. Task "Bridg…

  14.11.2017

• Oleg Borisov: Development Means Leaving Your Comfort Zone

  …edicated to control  algorithms of multidimensional objects. Last month, your team’s project uHVAT won at GoTech. What’s so good about your invention? What problems does it solve? At GoTech, we presented our multipurpose gripping unit which is a component for a cyberphysical system. Many gripping devices that are currently produced for the industry are customiz…

  14.11.2017

• "Assemble a University": Nationwide Hackathon Contributes to NTI Project

  …ing particular knowledge, the student doesn’t know where to apply it. Then, the time and effort spent on getting it can be considered wasted. This situation can and must be solved, believe the members of the Badcode Corporation team from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. They’ve developed a system which will inquire what competencies and skill the users have,…

  13.11.2017

• Programmer Daria Yakovleva: "You shouldn’t be afraid to try something new"

  …tes” your love for programming, and particularly competitive programming? Programming is a creative process. You are creating something new, inventing different systems and solving problems that haven’t been solved before. Instead of following instructions, you are looking for new methods and approaches. It’s very cool that programme…

  09.11.2017

• Canadian Experts Test ITMO Quantum Network

  …s have no vulnerabilities, says Vadim Makarov. Despite having substantial drawbacks (being slow, having limited communication distance and requiring expensive equipment), they solve the fundamental issue of information protection: it has been rigorously proven that they are safe and can not be hacked. Another advantage is that, since the information cannot be interce…

  09.11.2017

• Watching the Stars: Technologies of St. Petersburg’s New Planetarium

  … adjacent areas. For the image to look wholesome, you need to disguise it; in essence, you have to make the brightness even throughout the whole image. There are programs that solve this issue automatically by analyzing the distortions of test patterns projected on the surface. We’ve considered such solutions, yet decided to do everything manually. Also, we had to wo…

  09.11.2017

• Vasiliy Leonenko: "If You Are Sure About Your Current Choice, It Is Better to Develop In This Direction

  …al modeling, more so in such a field as biology? Mathematical modeling is really interesting, especially as it stimulates one’s inclusive development. So as to successfully solve its tasks, one has to not just possess specific knowledge related to this field, but also know programming, and be well-versed in different subjects of mathematics, as well as have a keen…

  08.11.2017

• WorldSkills: How World-Class Specialists are Trained in Russia

  …rs serve as jury experts. Participants are selected at regional championships in member countries. They demonstrate their technical abilities, personal and team qualities, and solve tasks designed to resemble real-life experiences. Their results say a lot not only about the teams themselves, but about the level of professional training and quality of service in the p…

  08.11.2017