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• The Beginning of Student Life: The Day You’ll Always Remember

  …However I didn’t know that it was required to pass the math exam. And I realized it the day before! I decided to try. I vividly remember 20 difficult tasks and only an hour to solve them. These 60 minutes flew very fast. I did my best and solved all of them but only 19 were right. It was enough to be enrolled. However I didn’t understan…

  01.09.2016

• Silicon Nanoparticles Trained to Juggle Light

  …of Gbit/s. However, silicon-based electronics are unable to process the incoming data at that rate. Non-linear nanoantennas that work at optical wavelengths could help us to resolve this problem and make ultrafast, all-optical signal processing possible." Silicon nanoparticles To demonstrate non-linear switching, the authors of a paper published in ACS Phot…

  24.08.2016

• The International Olympiad in Informatics – Russian High Schoolers Score Big

  … This year, 308 contestants from 80 countries participated in the contest, which has held in Kazan. The contest went on for two days, on each day the contestants had do solve three algorithmic tasks. In the end, Russian team was 2nd in the standings, losing only to the Chinese. As for individual results, participants from China, Russia and the USA got three go…

  19.08.2016

• Evgeny Pidko: Chemistry is a Catalyst for Success

  …rk on in Eindhoven.  Are there other applications of this technology? Fruits and vegetables rot in a refrigerator because of hydrogen sulphide release. The Japanese have solved this problem by using a special catalyst, which counteracts hydrogen sulphide and makes food stay fresh longer. This technology is forbidden in Europe because it uses a toxic transition …

  18.08.2016

• Summer School in Tallinn: Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction

  … or five for hands-on sessions: each team had to choose a problem to work on, develop the necessary methodology to check their hypothesis and, finally, propose a technology to solve it. Andrei Balkansky's team decided to work on a service for the elderly who travel alone, as many hesitate to go on distant journeys because of the language barrier or age-related diseas…

  18.08.2016

• Russian Coders: To Leave or not to Leave

  …il.Ru looked quite simple. The only extra benefits its’ employees had was unlimited coffee and cookies. However, the main reason of for his working there was an opportunity to solve tasks related to big data. Furthermore, Daniil got the chance to work part-time and at the same time continue his studying for his Master’s program. Apart from that, his salary was very h…

  18.08.2016

• ITMO University Participates in the Erasmus+ Program

  …ystems. A good example is the concept of a "Smart House", or even "Smart City". Household usage aside, IoT will help save energy (Smart  Grid), improve health care systems and solve numerous other problems a lot faster and more effectively than a human. There will also be a need for professionals who maintain the security of these systems, their stability and deve…

  15.08.2016

• Online Creativity: Crowdsourcing Services to Help Business

  …m appears because if, for example, a company consists of at least 100 people it cannot involve all staff members in brainstorms and meetings at the same time. Currently one solves this problem using crowdsourcing services. These online platforms help to find needed solutions and ideas from employees, clients and even volunteers. One of the most successful crowdsou…

  12.08.2016

• Optics Used for Measuring Blood Velocity

  …oth of these methods have considerable drawbacks. Using the water basin does not provide enough accuracy, and the special tubes are too expensive to regularly replace them. To solve this problem, the VISmart company proposed to assess the change in the limb's volume with optical methods. "Our solution introduces a system of LED lasers and light-sensitive ele…

  10.08.2016

• Ready to Move: Young Coders Share their Career Experience

  …y and before that in a small startup company. Machine Learning Works’ offer was very attractive and after clarifying several details I moved. All skills that I had were enough solve all tasks at a job interview. Then when I started working I needed some extra knowledge connected with SRE such as secure system operating and expertizes of database internals. The com…

  10.08.2016