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itmo.ru: The Best Birthday Present
…out 37 years old. That might sound a little exaggerated, but nevertheless, at this age it is very difficult to compete with young graduates in our field. Why? Because the knowledge and skills that were acquired a decade ago, now at least half of them are outdated. Some of the technology that we used when creating “the Seventh Bit” website were completely different, t…
26.03.2018
ITMO Hosts AI Academy Open Lessons
…ve access to such machine learning libraries as TensorFlow by Google. In order to start doing machine learning, one has to have good mathematical background and the basic knowledge of Python. Also, there are no age restrictions, adds Andrei Chertok - nowadays, some children start learning programming languages back in junior high. “It was our intention to de…
23.03.2018
ITMO Master’s Student on E-governance in Estonia and Interning at Tallinn University of Technology
…country is ready to share its experience. The system’s main thinktank and consulting agency is the e-Governance Academy, founded in order to develop and transfer the best knowledge and practices related to e-governance, e-democracy, and the promotion of an open information society. This is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization that operates within…
23.03.2018
Russian and Finnish Students Learn About Business Together with FIRST+
… TAMK. She emphasized that the program is very much practice-oriented: throughout the week, students don’t just learn about the use of Business Canvas Model, but use that knowledge to complete cases for partner companies. The program is partnered with major Northern European companies Valio, SOK and Bonava. “The idea for this project came to us to years ago afte…
22.03.2018
Nowruz: The Start of Spring
…eyzullah Hadisov, a Master’s student from Azerbaijan at the Department of Computer System Design and Security. A New Year for Many Nations In 2010, March 21st was acknowledged as the official holiday of Nowruz by the UN General Assembly. According to the United Nations, “Nowruz plays a significant role in strengthening the ties among peoples based on mutual res…
20.03.2018
ITMO Student Team Wins QCTF Starter Competition in Computer Security
… category - we were given a website that sent a flag in a response a particular request made under certain specific conditions. For completing such a task, one needs keen knowledge of networks, protocols and system administration.” On SPbCTF’s activities at ITMO University “We are really thankful to the SPbCTF team - they are really cool people who come…
16.03.2018
‘I am a Professional’ Competition Ends with Medals Ceremony
…niversity. One of the gold medalists, Vladislav Koval, who participated in the Photonics Track, says that he decided to take part in the competition in order to check his knowledge. “I wasn’t expecting to get a high result, so I didn’t prepare much – I just looked through some practice tests.” Regarding his future he says: “On the one hand, it would be interesti…
15.03.2018
SCAMT Member on New Approaches to Chemical Education
…d that chemical education in schools is based on rote learning, and mostly irrelevant. I had to learn lots of things by heart, there was no system in the way they gave us knowledge, so it was almost impossible to understand it logically. When we were doing chemical equations, I couldn’t even understand how they worked and why I had to do them this way and not another…
14.03.2018
ITMO Helps Train Optical Systems Design Specialists in Collaboration with European Union
…h in the areas that are most beneficial to the industry. Besides, contact with industrial partners lets them find more effective solutions for optical systems design, the knowledge of which is then passed on to the students. Now that the ADOPSYS has ended, the lab plans to continue taking part in the European Union’s framework projects, including the Horizon 2…
14.03.2018
New Head of US English Language Office on How to Improve English-Language Education in Russia and the World
…ons, CVs and letters of reference. “Universities in every country want to improve the level of English-language skills among their students and staff, especially knowledge of their respective fields’ vocabularies. After all, this is the only way for them to join the international scientific community – and that applies to English-speaking countries, too. Reg…
13.03.2018