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• ITMO Scientists Working on New Generation of Aircraft Fire Safety

  …tain structural elements and sound an alarm even when there’s no fire at all. Our aim is to reduce the margin of error to zero. We plan to develop not only a series of cutting-edge smoke detectors, but a complex multispectral system that will analyze the situation in a precise and timely manner,” – says Igor Volobuev. In addition to aircraft, the system can be u…

  07.08.2017

• Gaming Your Way In Programming

  … technological consultancy. The platform is quite unique as one can use it to train their skills in several fields of programming at the same time. The user can check his knowledge by answering questions and earning points. The questions are split into 16 categories and dozens of subcategories: from programming languages to project management technologies and the his…

  03.08.2017

• ITMO and NTU to Collaborate on Academic Mobility Programs

  …ITMO Fellowship and Visiting Professorship programs. For instance, in 2013 ITMO University founded the ICT Center TROIKA (Technology and Research on Information-Driven Knowledge Alliance), among the members of which are numerous foreign universities, with ITMO University and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) at the helm. For several years, the university has worke…

  02.08.2017

• ITMO and South Korea Launch SumIT Startup School

  …The SumIT brand began in 2012. At first, it was a full-fledged acceleration program for Russian projects, a role which was later filled by Future Technologies. The educational process lasted for five to six months and mostly involved student projects from St. Petersburg which were accelerated to a certain stage by mentors. Later, the name began to be used for an inte…

  02.08.2017

• Spin Unit Co-Founder on Social Networks’ Effect on Urban Life

  …ing social life and others are not. We want to study the factors that contribute to the growth of popular public spaces. We believe that today's economy is the economy of knowledge: we lose our physical powers, and they are no longer important for survival. Thanks to the IT-revolution, we can virtually be at several places at the same time, communicate with different…

  31.07.2017

• ITMO’s Russian Language Summer School: Gaining New Experiences

  … your horizons. Steffi Caroline (Indonesia) says “We learned a lot of new things, we compared Russian traditions and culture with those of our own countries and exchanged knowledge”. “If you had told me 2 years ago that I’d go to St. Petersburg I wouldn’t have believed you. But now I want to go to Moscow as well, I want to see all the big cities in Russia, I als…

  28.07.2017

• ITMO University Wins Grant on Developing New Decision Support System

  … "The current problem is that specialists in the fields of financial mathematics and data analysis often work independently from each other. Thus, the former lack the knowledge and experience in defining the properties of their models, and the latter create models based on their personal experience, which greatly limits their use. We want to unite these efforts, …

  28.07.2017

• “Night of Light” in Gatchina

  …roken surface. Guests of the park will get to witness the eyes of Gatchina Park’s architect at the height of three meters as the image will be projected onto the park’s thick hedges. The project employs a short-throw projector placed as close to the surface as possible, so as not to have the guests interfere with the image. This project, just like “Portal”, was devel…

  27.07.2017

• ITMO Students Share Summer Internship Stories

  …m Russia, Belgium, UK, Portugal, Spain, Japan, Brazil, Chile, Italy and others. The students were invited to a magnificent location in Sicily where they could renew their knowledge of the Universe, particle physics and the latest achievements in gravity-wave astronomy. “It’s not even about the school or the lectures or particle physics or the origins of the Univ…

  26.07.2017

• ITMO and VNIIM Develop Joint Master's Program in Metrology

  …cently there were no educational programs in Russia to train top-tier experts in metrology. National Institutes dealing in metrology are key to developing such skills and knowledge in students. Mendeleev National Research Institute of Metrology VNIIM is one of the seven National Institutes of Metrology which are part of the system of the Federal Agency on Tec…

  25.07.2017