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• Small Innovative Enterprise "Intelligent Information Systems" Attracts New Investors

  …t only within the scientific community, but also on the market. Then, both our staff and the University’s future graduates can look for new ways to apply their scientific knowledge and experience, as well as obtain new business and entrepreneurial competences." — explains Aleksander Ostroukhov, head of the SIE Cooperation Office. Denis Zhuk, the commercial dire…

  22.12.2016

• ITMO Develops a New Modular Platform for Robot Construction

  … and Research students began work on the development of this platform back in 2012. The goal of these R&D projects that they were working on was to give students advanced knowledge in specialized fields. Several of ITMO's departments took part in this undertaking, as constructing robots implies having skills in more than just robotics, but also programming and inform…

  21.12.2016

• "Death and Life of Catalysts": Evgeny Pidko on Getting the ERC Grant and his Research Plans

  …e. But that would be wrong from the point of view of my research. In modern science, we focus on something "positive" - something that works. Yet, when we try to use this knowledge on a working technology in order to improve it, some 95% of experiments don't work at all! Classical empirical chemistry is based on searching for the working "exceptions" and using the…

  20.12.2016

• Surviving Yemen, Surviving ITMO

• From Akinator Genii to Machine Learning: A Science Slam Participant on Detection Technologies

  …lity is improved after filming by replacing bad shots. This won't do in our case — what we need is a stable, quality image with no shaking filmed in real time. Credit: azureedge.net Why do you think your work can become successful? Detection technologies were brought from abroad. De facto, we have no good Russian counterparts for such software. And we a…

  12.12.2016

• How to Improve the Quality of Higher Education?

  …mselves) and the external (when universities use the assistance of outside observers to analyze their activities). With regards to decision making processes, the expert acknowledge that ITMO has to combine centralized and decentralized approaches, which means joining initiatives of departments and centers as well as projects developed by top-level officials. Anita B…

  06.12.2016

• Ivan Zasursky: Inaccessible Knowledge Divides Society

  …causes a problem of entropy. Our society has changed — today we don’t have enough time to handle all the information we get. Only a small number of people have access to knowledge. We no longer have a situation when someone writes news and the next day we read it in a newspaper, as today the world is much more dynamic. It provokes social inequality — high speed info…

  05.12.2016

• Popularizing Science: Director Dmitry Zagilevsky on Shooting Popular Science Films in Russia

  …cientists and bring their ideas to the general public.   So, why directors do that?   It's really simple. As talented as they can be, directors seldom possess knowledge in the field of science. That means it’s easy to inspire them with some idea and create a pseudoscience film. I got lucky: not only did I get my technical education at the Moscow State Uni…

  05.12.2016

• ITMO.START — the Academic Festival for School Students at ITMO University

  …tics, programming and physics, as well as train for contests and find their future career paths. The "Physics-Mathematical Research School" gives its students advanced knowledge in these sciences, as well as gives them an opportunity to put this knowledge into practice. The School aims at training its students for contests and the Un…

  05.12.2016

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …p VSS Unity. It made a successful first glide flight on Dec. 3, a key step after a deadly crash of its predecessor two years ago. The company's goal is to take tourists to the edge of space, more than 62 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth. Potentially it can carry up to six passengers on a three-hour suborbital flight. Despite the hefty $ 250,000 price tag, more than…

  04.12.2016