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• Motion Capture, VR and Video 360: New Technologies Enter Classical Art

  … away, and they told me that the exam was just the day after. So, I read a bunch of literature, got in, and that totally changed my life. In what ways did you find the knowledge you got at university useful for real work? On the whole, I believe that Master’s programs should be practice-oriented. It doesn’t matter what the program is about, whethere it’s multim…

  14.05.2018

• Physicist Yuri Kivshar on Russian Science, Career Management and Metaoptics

  …e for himself; he’s working in Texas now. Eight years ago you and Pavel Belov won a grant for the creation of a metamaterials lab at ITMO University. Today we have a full-fledged International Research Center of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials; the Faculty of Physics and Engineering has gone through a rehaul and several “mega-grants” have been won in recent years.…

  11.05.2018

• How Citizen Science Helps in “True” Research

  …t we can do today. Nevertheless, there were many skilled naturalists who collected plants and insects back then. Although they were not professional scientists, but their knowledge was enough to communicate with them, be published in newspapers and magazines and contribute to various research activities. Citizen science is not new, but it has received a new impuls…

  11.05.2018

• Island 10-21 Welcomes Future Technological Leaders

  …at the current education system and labor market cannot prepare for. In Russia and globally there is a shortage of specialists in areas where usual engineer or programmer knowledge does not suffice. Some of those areas are big data, end-to-end technologies (computer analysis and modelling), blockchain technologies, AI, IoT. It requires an understanding of the new tas…

  10.05.2018

• A Look at Russia’s First Master’s Program on LED Technologies

  …es, while Russian companies simply produce specific components for them, the LED area is different in that even a relatively small company can produce both a lamp and a full-fledged intellectual lighting system, notes Prof. Bougrov. “It’s a very rapidly-growing market; we’ve previously observed growth rates of 30-40% per year, and it keeps growing. This is a rar…

  10.05.2018

• ITMO University Developing New Design System

  …ment of the university’s own design system intended to unite all of the university’s online resources. “The university’s website is no longer just that: it’s a full-fledged web-portal, an entry point for many other projects. Overall, there are around 200 sub-brands  and projects created by the Department of Informational Technologies and others. There are a …

  08.05.2018

• Portfolio Competition Open For Master’s Students

  …in June that I knew that I would get accepted to ITMO University without taking exams. I think that a portfolio competition is an objective method for assessing students’ knowledge. Besides, the first two questions can help you understand whether you want to study at ITMO or not. Anton Kuznetsov, Master’s student at the Department of Financial Management and Audit…

  08.05.2018

• Applications Open for Russia-Japan Youth Exchange

  …ersities and ITMO University’s laboratories. Members of the group noted that programs like this one help the members of the two nations understand each other better and acknowledge the meanings of certain cultural traits. “A trip to Japan isn’t something to be afraid of: first of all, Japan is one of the world’s safest countries. Throughout the entire trip, …

  07.05.2018

• ITMO University Wins State Support Research Grant

  …nd self-organizing formal systems (including neural networks and multi-agent systems), support and decision-making systems based on the analysis and synthesis of data and knowledge (recommendation systems and predictive modelling systems), as well as areas that deal with predicting user actions, personal assistants, audio and video image recognition programs, game AI…

  07.05.2018

• Data Analysis and Scientific Approach: New Technologies Effect on Oil Sector

  …mary tools to gain what we need. There are three of them: Science Engineering, which uses basic sciences to find solutions, Data Science - working with large data, and Knowledge Management. Science Engineering What have we achieved using new technologies? For instance, let's take the "Gazpromneft-Noyabrskneftegaz" deposit in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okru…

  28.04.2018