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• From Idea to Business in Eight Weeks: The Second Session of ITMO 3.0 Reload

  …at the end of last year — at that time, the five finalists had to pitch their projects by explaining their research in detail. The teams had to demonstrate more than just knowledge of their technologies and products, but also a firm grasp of the main market instruments — the participants had to analyze target groups, conduct competitive analyses and present their pro…

  17.03.2017

• Soft Skills for Engineers: Students Presented Solutions for Real-Life Business Cases

  … company, soft skills are extremely important, so they have to become a part of the engineering background. As of now, a successful R&D engineer has to obtain fundamental knowledge, apply it to the practice, deal with lots of data, be good at modern technologies, solve tasks in a creative way, know the basics of project management and be responsible for the result. …

  16.03.2017

• ITMO’s Team Works on Impenetrable Data Storage Systems

  …and other emergencies", shares Oleg Sadov, key member of the "Networking Technologies in Distributed Computer Systems" laboratory. In ITMO's and Smart's project, the cutting-edge technology of quantum protection will be used in a particular infrastructure with real users, which is a most important step to introducing innovative solutions into everyday life. "Quan…

  15.03.2017

• ITalented: the New Course for IT Students

  … IT market, and asked them whether they were OK with specialists that come work with them right after graduation. It turned out that they were satisfied with the level of knowledge the graduates possess; yet, there's a different problem. Most specialists on the IT market lack social skills and teamwork, whereas working on any project implies constant communication. W…

  14.03.2017

• The More Chocolate the Better Test Results — What Really Helps to Prepare for Exams?

  …eeks the participants made a test, and the first group showed better results. Don’t shake your head when preparing for an exam! You carefully "fill" your brain with knowledge so as to "put" it on the teacher’s table. Sometimes it works if you really work hard to gain the knowledge. However, various studies show that physical activ…

  13.03.2017

• The Results of Q.E.D Competition or How People Solved Math Tasks

  …sentative of Yandex, people make mistakes because they are used to being in a hurry as opposed to not being smart enough. The organizers believe that one needs only basic knowledge in math — there are a lot of 10 year-old children among the participants. Even those who are weak on STEM disciplines can do that. "The only thing you need is logic. After the contest, w…

  13.03.2017

• ITMO University in QS World Subject Rankings for the First Time

  …cation rankings in the Computer Science subject ranking, achieving 56th place and one of only two Russian universities (together with Lomonosov Moscow State University) acknowledged in the THE rankings. "ITMO University has featured in the QS subject rankings for the first time this year, and you could say that we are currently in the "take-off phase", commented Il…

  10.03.2017

• "Genome Tetris" and Analyzing Fly Behavior: BioHack — the First Hackathon on Bioinformatics

  …t was most useful from the technical point of view, though it would have been most hard without a biologist. For me, that was an interesting experiment on how to apply my knowledge in programming to a real bioinformatics task". The team has yet to develop an interface for their results, but it might well do it after the hackathone. According to its members, their r…

  09.03.2017

• Those Who Code: Female Programmers on Gender Issues in IT

  …re can be different situations. I remember a situation when a girl was chosen between two equally capable programmers — just because female programmers are rare, and they give edge to any team. Yet, unfortunately, sometimes it happens the other way. Nadejda Ratskevich, graduate of the Department of Computation Technologies of Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical Univ…

  08.03.2017

• New SAP Lab at ITMO Gives Students a Chance to Work on Real Projects

  … the University AdTech SAP InnoJam. Team-workshop participants listened to a crash course on using SAP products for R&D and got some cases that need to be solved with new knowledge and skills that they gained. The cases were arranged such that the developers had to come up with non-standard applications of SAP for advertising technology of the future. The event was h…

  06.03.2017