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• ITMO Launches a New Set of Massive Open Online Courses

  …s can apply new knowledge as soon as they learn it, for purposes of classic programming or creating web applications. The lecturers will also share on the skills necessary for solving the most typical tasks of web-programming in Python, as well as teach to create systems and application using CMS Django. The course is part of the "Web programming" group of discipl…

  09.02.2017

• Solitons for Optical Computing: ITMO’s Physicist Receives a Presidential Grant

  …han their electronic counterparts. To create such devices, scientists have to be fluent in light managing dealing with as small scales as it possible. Roman Savelyev offers to solve this problem by using optical structures with nonlinear response. "Nonlinear optical effects are based on the following principle: the parameters of light propagation environment depend…

  07.02.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …mputer blueprint. University of Sussex in the UK has published what the researchers say is the first practical blueprint to build an ultra-powerful quantum computer that could solve problems beyond the capability of machines based on conventional electronics. The work features a new invention permitting actual quantum bits to be transmitted between individual quantum…

  06.02.2017

• A Taste for Science: Why the State Is Eager To Finance Universities' Fundamental Research?

  …er's and research students, and the head must be a young Candidate or Doctor of Science. What is more, for the last years we’ve enjoyed the tendency of research being aimed at solving practical problems, despite its fundamental nature", notes Irina Melchakova, head of ITMO's Office of International Research. One of these projects was developing metamaterials and me…

  25.01.2017

• Master’s Student on Cryptocurrencies and How to Organize an IT Business

  … it uses another "consensus-algorithm" as a base. Bitcoin works like this: so called "miners" pack transactions as blocks. To present a block and get a benefit, miners have to solve a difficult task using brute force method. When the task is solved, one "presents" a solution together with transactions. This solution proves that the mino…

  24.01.2017

• Chitin — A Multipurpose Natural Material

  … role in cell walls of plants. Yet, according to the data from Russian Chitin Society, chitin is far more reactive. It can be processed into chitosan, a polymer that can be dissolved in dilute acid solutions, as well as react with other chemical substances. Chemists often call chitosan a constructor that can be used for creating different polymers. To obtain pure chi…

  24.01.2017

• Gain Extra Points with Vkontakte

  …l exams. There are also special apps for testing students or developing an interactive schedule. According to Anna Veklich, Head of the Strategic Communications Department, solving Olympiad tasks with the assistance of social networks will become something common, as schoolers use them for communication much more frequently than other sources. "Youth is defin…

  23.01.2017

• VIII Gaidar Forum: Russia’s Leading Experts on the Future of Education

  …ector of the Higher School of Economics. Oleg Harhordin, Head of the European University, believes that the idea of the 3.0 Universities is quite narrow and does not have to solve global issues like climate change or introduction of biotechnologies. According to him, a university of the future should not be a model startup incubator, but a treasurer of culture. …

  21.01.2017

• Smartphones Are no Longer "Smart" With Cloud Technologies

  …g technologies more than others. There are medicine, finances, and urban services. For example, IT technologies help research human genome, analyze data from speed cameras and solve other tasks. These days, experts in the field of data stream mining are in high demand. The main peculiarity of analyzing data streams is exponentially increasing information, so an al…

  20.01.2017

• ITMO University Staff Win Government Award for Translational IT

  …ing, and Professor Peter Sloot from the eScience Research Institute. The goal of the program is to train specialists who are capcable of a multi-disciplinary approach and can solve problems and lead innovative projects and companies in translational IT. Translational information technology refers to the use of standard IT techniques for non-standard solutions for…

  18.01.2017