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• 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

• ITMO’s Bioengineering Center Presents Research on New Bio-Compatible Implants

  …use of metal implants call for a secondary intervention to remove them. Thus, polymer implants can become a great alternative: they are totally bio-compatible and gradually dissolve in the organism, being replaced by bone tissue in three to five years. The idea has already been around for some time: the first papers on the subjects were written around half a century …

  21.02.2017

• Does Your School Have the Best Programmers? ITMO Does!

  … in the individual competition. Gennady Korotkevich and Ilya Zban, students of the Computer Technology Department, received the maximum number of points — 430. Mr. Korotkevich solved all the tasks in record time equal to 144 minutes. Ilya Zban made it in 521 minutes which made him place third in the School Leaderboard while a coder from Harvard University

  21.02.2017

• A Cubic Centimeter-size Charger to Save Your Day

  …take bottled gas with them. Yet, until recent time there weren't the technologies necessary to create a sufficiently small device. That's where we come in. The main task we solved was creating a device for gas combustion which is less than 1 cm in size. There were many problems with it, as small flames tend to extinguish — and we needed them to burn. There are lot…

  17.02.2017