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ITMO University Becomes the Co-Founder of CINPET Innovation Center
…ence, today we create a smart system that will combine the competencies all of its participants possess: this includes robotics and our university’s vast experience in cutting-edge manufacturing technologies - so that we can forecast and simulate processes that are present in all of the city's networks. This includes both optical and physical examination. I am sure t…
29.03.2017
New Horizon in International Education: APAIE 2017
…ation Department at ITMO University. "While discussing our interim results of ITMO university and National University of Singapore’s collaboration, Professor Anne Pakir acknowledged the motivation and drive of ITMO students who are currently studying in Singapore." Ivan Samborskiy, Arseniy Pendryak, Denis Mekhanikov and Kseniya Buraya are currently doing an inte…
27.03.2017
ITMO Opens a Judo Training Base
…ent the city, JFLR and country in domestic and international tournaments. At the recent JFLR's conference, Andrei Ivanov, Vice Rector for Economics and Finance, also acknowledged the agreement's importance. "At our university, we pay a lot of attention to both youth policy and developing physical education and sports as part of it, comments the Vice Rector. We a…
27.03.2017
Dynamically Lit Jewelry and Smart Backpacks: the Fashion of the Future by ITMO Students
…se his emotions, but many would like to own such items. Thus, the designers offer programmable jewelry, so that each can match colors to emotions as he likes. It's common knowledge that light diodes come in a range of colors. For instance, the chameleon jacket can render 256 shades, so one can create his own individual palette. Jewelry with dynamic lighting Dif…
24.03.2017
Research on Fairy Circles in Africa Will Benefit Agriculture
…lants struggling for survival. Water accumulates in tunnels made by the insects, and plants try to grow as close to them as possible. This would explain their abundance on the edge of termite colonies. Fairy circles Credit: joyreactor.cc There's also a theory that links fairy circles to plant's self-regulation — rainfalls flow along clearings towards certain pl…
23.03.2017
ITMO’s Robotic Center: New Projects by WRO’s Award Winners
…ent robotic contests and winners of competitions in Physics. Yet, even fifth graders can join the Center, if they know the fundamentals of robotics and want to apply this knowledge. Here, they can understand what they want to do in the future — become "pure" programmers, engineers, or combine these fields of knowledge, explains Igor Los…
22.03.2017
Staying Ahead of Time: ITMO’s New Program of Neurotechnologies
…ate, developing one's cognitive functions and such, shares Lyubov Lisitsyna. Thus, the program's graduate will not just be a good programmer, but will also have the basic knowledge necessary to become a specialist in developing neural interfaces for electronic systems, including AI technologies, biometry, affective computing and such". The program's first graduates…
21.03.2017
Ten Online Courses You Won’t Want to Miss
…per's guide to the Internet of Things (IoT) from IBM, Coursera The course is an introduction to design and deployment of IoT solutions and is aimed at users with basic knowledge in programming, giving insight into all the steps necessary to create a basic IoT solution using the popular Raspberry Pi device and a trial version of IBM Watson IoT Platform. The tasks f…
20.03.2017
Mobile University: ITMO Presents Plans and Research Projects to Project 5−100's International Council
…ool of Computer Technologies and Controls Sergei Kolubin. "For the last two years, ITMO University has been amongst Project 5−100's leaders. Now, our achievements are acknowledged on the international level, as well," comments Marianna Chistyakova, head of the Office of Strategic Development, manager for Project 5−100. "In 2016, we got the 56th position in THE's Co…
20.03.2017
Grants for Universities: One Has to Know When to Stop
… ITMO University Muhommad Al-Khabal However, universities have to keep balance between commercialization activities and education, as they are the main centers of knowledge and scientific discoveries. While making efforts to developing commercial projects, they may fail with fundamental research. Furthermore, it can cause the situation when young scientists d…
17.03.2017