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• Startup Consulting Expert Faris Alami: Investors Don’t Invest in Ideas, They Invest in People

  … for their business to develop. What steps must one take to grow from a startup to a serious enterprise? I hope you have a month for this discussion (laughs). This is certainly a big topic, in my experience, you do not have to be a big company to do serious business. As for the steps, they depend on what you want to achieve, on the reasons behind your startup’s…

  17.10.2019

• ITMO’s PhD Student Awarded a Grant for Researching Natural Protein-Based Preservatives

  …tract microbiota, which likely makes them harmless to humans,” explains Georgiy.  According to the student’s scientific advisor Denis Baranenko, what they are aiming to obtain as a result is a substance with antimicrobial properties to be used in the production of highly purified natural preservatives. “Georgiy has already accomplished a significant amo…

  17.10.2019

• Spanish Environmental Biotechnologists on the Environmental Situation, Greta Thunberg and Two-Phase Air Filters

  …leaner Production Master’s program) invited us to give a course on environmental biotechnologies. This course is meant to be a part of the EduEnvi “Enhancing Competences of Sustainable Waste Management in Russian and Kazakh HEIs” project, which we organize together with several Russian, Kazakh and EU universities. The University of Valladolid and ITMO University are …

  15.10.2019

• Fort Boyard: ITMO University Hosts Information Security Quest

  …ich they had to detect. Having found that difference, it was then possible to identify 16 symbols, either 0s or 1s, and, using a special table, reconstruct two letters that contain an encrypted message. These tweaks are unrecognizable to the human eye, which is why special software was needed. In its turn, it was sewn into a .docx document, which, when opened, turned…

  15.10.2019

• No Cords, No Cars: An ITMO University Lecture Takes a Peek Into Our Digital Future

  …VUCA world that followed after that.  SPOD is an acronym standing for steady, predictable, ordinary, definite, while VUCA represents its absolute polarity: volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. We live in the era of the industry 4.0, which means that we are surrounded by cyberphysical production systems: the development process and the resultin…

  14.10.2019

• First Graduates of Game Development Technologies Master’s Program: You Cannot Just Be a Programmer in GameDev

  … me to pick up new technologies and approaches. The best part for me were opportunities to meet gamedev professionals and even have some of them teach our courses. It was entertaining to visit the 4C: St. Petersburg conference. It took place in the beginning of our studies, so it was a startling experience to be at an international game developer conference. Back the…

  14.10.2019

• ITMO University Team Wins NordCTF With More Points Than All Other Contestants Put Together

  … find solutions on the internet.  “The participants have a pack of 28 tasks,” explains Aleksander Uskov, Technical Director of the contest. “Each task has a value of a certain number of points depending on its difficulty level. There are three levels: easy, medium and hard. However, there is also a dynamic points system - say, for example, a task originally “wor…

  14.10.2019

• Academy of Talents: ITMO’s Specialists from Institute of Design & Urban Studies Host Lectures for School Students

  …Irina Shmeleva, head of ITMO’s Sustainable Urban Development Laboratory and associate professor at the Institute of Design & Urban Studies Please tell us more about the Big Challenges competition. Big Challenges is the project by the Sochi-based educational center Sirius, which was created by the educational foundation “Talent and Success” on the basis of the o…

  11.10.2019

• ITMO Graduate and Entrepreneur Denis Ovcharov on Importance of Soft Skills

  …that out of 300 participants, only 100 would make to the list of winners.  You had Herman Gref as your mentor. What was working with him like? And what experience did you obtain as a result of this interaction and the competition in general?  In essence, all we had was two meetings, but I think that the development impetus he gave me will be enough for the next…

  10.10.2019

• Odd and Obscure Sculptures of St. Petersburg

  … monument is dedicated to the character of Gogol’s surreal short story The Nose, a nose that’s abandoned its owner to lead a separate life, eventually surpassing its host by attaining the rank of State Councillor. Though initially a temporary installation for the 1995 International Festival of Satire and Humor in St. Petersburg, the monument became so popular that, a…

  08.10.2019