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New SAP Lab at ITMO Gives Students a Chance to Work on Real Projects
…hnology, marketing and other components of any business with its own R&D. In addition, SAP collaborates with universities and research centers to create innovative projects to solve the problems of their clients. SAP Next-Gen Lab is a new initiative set up on the basis of SAP University Alliance, which is a system in place where special laboratories are opened at …
06.03.2017
Gutenberg’s Lounge: Human-like Intelligence or a Spotless Mind?
…d games like Go, Jeopardy, table tennis and also those who can drive and do other things better than humans. What are their disadvantages? The main one is that each system can solve only one task. It means that when we need to solve some other, we have to create a new system. Now imagine that you have a computer that looks for solutions…
06.03.2017
5 Things You Need to Know Now
…nt material to print with -- potentially providing a renewable, biodegradable alternative to the polymers currently used in 3-D printing materials. Cellulose acetate can be dissolved in acetone and extruded through a nozzle. As the acetone quickly evaporates, the cellulose acetate solidifies in place. Pressing Delete button in DNA. A new software pipeline CRISPETa…
06.03.2017
Gamification: How to Learn the Periodic Table While Playing Battleship
…students have already developed several games for companies and teachers. For instance, the OCEAN role-playing game is about how specialists from different fields cooperate to solve global problems of seas and oceans, or the ITMO Technologies game that aims to teach students work in the new technology market. A good example of a game concept is combining the Perio…
03.03.2017
Like Doesn’t Cure Like: Homeopathy and Its Fake Medications
…xperiment. One of possible reasons is that Samuel Hahnemann may have had allergy to the components of cinchona. In accordance with Hahnemann’s principles, homoeopathists dissolve pathogenic agents (or something they consider such agent) in water. For this purpose they use spores of poisonous fungi, ammonia, arsenic, parts of insects or other creatures. However,…
01.03.2017
JavaScript, С, PHP and Python: ITMO’s Master’s Students on How to Create a Website in 45 Minutes
… complex things, yet do not know much about these technologies or how to use them. We have many videos on it, so one can learn themany ways of using different technologies for solving common tasks. Each user can conduct his own analysis and decide which approach he likes most", adds Dmitry Shuklin. ITMO University."Website in 45 Minutes" authors. JQu…
28.02.2017
Co-creation Concept: How to Manage Creativity?
…but according to the plan? The first and main life-hack is that you have to answer the question: why do I need creative activity? What personal issue or career task I have to solve this week using creativity? If I can answer this question, I have the time and energy to create. Ask yourself: "How to make repairs in my flat at a certain price?", or "How to find an apa…
28.02.2017
Russian Men’s Day, Women’s Day and the Danger of the Frying Pan
…d coaches, and we’re not even talking the obvious candidates, such as teachers and headmistresses. Before the 8th of March every supermarket is crowded with thousands of women solving a problem of buying dozens of similar gifts, not too expensive, not too cheap, not too boring and not too intimate. Yes, the days before Women’s (including Mom’s) Day can be called Mom’…
23.02.2017
Experience Exchange in the Field of Social Design: ITMO’s Specialists Visited UCLA
…r development of social design is that most of the projects focus on both social assistance and commercial benefit. Those who commercialize their ideas always pay attention to solving some particular social problem. "In the USA, we talked to specialists of a volunteering center. They shared that it is common for students to start their social activities as a…
22.02.2017
New Program for Crowd Behavior Analysis
…itute. "We used context adaptation to get an accurate picture of what happens and diminish the uncertainty we face when making a model of crowd behavior." Agent-based models solve two problems: firstly, they help make short-term forecasts that explain "what will happen if…" - they simulate different scenarios like fire, flood, blockade of one of the entrances and s…
21.02.2017