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ITMO University and NEC Corporation to Cooperate on Development of Infocommunication Technologies
Popularization Committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Fighting Pseudoscience with Science-Pop
…projects and short-term scientific schools for lecturers, among others. The Committee also intends to set up contests on creating various science-pop media such as video, internet resources, lectures, books, and articles, as well as publishing RAS’s scientific journals with the involvement of Russia’s leading science popularizers. In all of this, it will be helped by…
29.12.2018
Business Games, or How to Pass Exams Without Taking Exams and Get a Job Without an Interview
…t was held by the University in the spring of 2018. “Contemporary education isn’t all lectures and seminars, it also involves a wide range of opportunities for active networking of students and stakeholders to everyone’s benefit. Information was a more exclusive resource before, as it was teachers who accumulated the knowledge and passed them on to students.…
28.12.2018
Head of ITMO's Femtomedicine Lab Olga Smolyanskaya on Applications of Terahertz Radiation in Medicine and Biology
…urring in the research object. Another limitation of these methods is a high degree of THz wave absorption by water molecules. This phenomenon prevents the waves from penetrating hydrated tissues, and, consequently, from eliciting a terahertz response. But it is possible to circumvent such a negative impact; explored in our article, for example, are new approa…
25.12.2018
Mind Maps, Open Spaces, and Cooking Contests: ITMO Staff Visit UK’s Oxford Brookes University
…ccess to information and creates the right conditions for both individual and collective studies. For instance, the entire premises of Oxford Brookes are covered by a Wi-Fi network, including even the university buses that shuttle students between campuses. Students have access to gyms, swimming pools, football fields, and golf courses, spacious library halls and …
21.12.2018
ITMO Students' Facial Recognition System Wins 'Best Creative Solution' at Fintech Cup
… recognition technologies. All you have to do is to direct a camera to a cardholder’s face, then the application recognizes it and transmits the data to the server. The neural network checks the face against the database and approves or rejects the transaction. The main advantage of the new method is that it protects users’ personal data such as their card and phone …
21.12.2018
From Sunshine to Freezing Cold: An Ecuadorian’s Experience of Russia
…. How did you choose ITMO? I didn’t really like the educational system in Ecuador and was looking for opportunities to study abroad. That’s why I started surfing the net for the best Russian universities that offered programs similar to mine. It’s worth noting that I only chose between St. Petersburg’s universities. I’ve been to Moscow as well, and I think …
20.12.2018
ITMO Launches New Master’s Program ‘Bioeconomics and Resource Management’
Affiliate-Friendly Advertising Network: Connecting Small Businesses and Clients
…Affiliate-Friendly Advertising Network (the project’s working title) is a tool aimed at finding links between different eating spots, which incorporates a Big Data analysis algorithm. A user ‘checks in’ a bar or a cafe and the system automatically adds the place in their favorites list. The QULLAB’s staff Arten Konukhov, Aleksandra Nenko, and Marina Petrova used…
20.12.2018
University of South Carolina Professor on Development of Anticancer Drugs
…everal factors. The first is the drug’s target, or, in other words, the parts of the tumor the drug will interact with. The second is the drug’s own properties, from pharmacokinetic (which describe how the treatment affects the tumor and healthy tissues) to general (how the drug impacts on other molecules present in the body). History of cancer drugs development …
19.12.2018