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Additional Education Helps to Double One’s Salary
…ly four universities offer such courses, in St. Petersburg – only two and one of them is at ITMO University. This problem provokes another one – people have received some knowledge and obtaine skills but there is no work for them. What solutions do Courseburg offer to solve these problems? We started to develop this service in October and now we haven’t do…
18.07.2016
Cities of the Future
…It’s impossible to implement smart city technologies without the necessary knowledge about processes within a city, for example the transportation system, how crowds move around the city, their requirements and social infrastructure, weather conditions and many other aspects of life in an urban city. “Nearly 50% of the world’s population live in cities. So it's …
18.07.2016
Choosing Landmarks that Capture the Spirit of Russia for New Paper Bills
…sk is sometimes referred to as “the student capital of Russia”, since every 5th resident of the city is a student; the university itself is the oldest in Siberia and an acknowledged symbol of its home city. Another university aspiring to represent its home city is Ural Federal University of Ekaterinburg, though it has yet to collect the necessary votes. “This …
18.07.2016
New Master's Students Will Research Technologies Which Will Change the Face of Economics
…The new Master’s program will give students an opportunity to be engaged in fields that are in the leading edge of research. One such promising research area is Blockchain technology, explains Andrey Rybin, the Head of the program, and also Head of the International Scientific Laboratory “Modern Communication technologies and their applications for Economics and Fina…
15.07.2016
IT Breakthrough: Young Experts Teach Computers to Make Decisions
…mpetencies needed to start the course and the ones that students will obtain after graduation. The main principle of this system is consequential education. It means that knowledge received at a course is necessary to start the next one. To determine and analyze interconnection of competencies the technology uses genetic algorithms and so-called Bloom’s Taxonomy. It …
15.07.2016
University of Missouri and ITMO U: More Similarities than Differences
…bute: “Scientists at University of Missouri analyze how to apply nanotechnologies for visualization purposes and cancer diagnosis. These projects can be supplemented with knowledge of ITMO University colleagues. Furthermore we can develop similar solutions and promote them to the market in partnership,” said Mr. Fender. University of Missouri and ITMO University…
14.07.2016
Crowd Math: Researchers from St. Petersburg, Amsterdam and Bangalore Made the World's Largest Social Experiment
…ity, in India this takes place regularly. We had an opportunity to observe how flows of people are organized and managed in mass human gatherings, so that we can use this knowledge in the future. – explained Ksenia Mukhina, Masters Student in the High-Performance Computing Department. The researchers recorded many hours of video, and with the permission of local…
12.07.2016
Science Communication With a View Over Sicily
Gazprom Inform to Cooperate with ITMO University
…l requirements of modern market. “Thanks to the cooperation of Gazprom Inform and ITMO University our students will be involved in real projects and will apply their knowledge. Such an experience will make them completely prepared IT experts,” said the rector. Gazprom Inform is one of largest branches of Gazprom, which develops technical solutions for IT in…
08.07.2016
Good News for Coders: Google and Facebook are Hiring
… asked to send my grade certificate. My results were good so the next steps were two technical Interviews. Apart from data structure, algorithms and software languages knowledge, an applicant should have interview skills. It means that one can explain what approach he or she will use while solving a task. When preparing for my interview, I used glassdoor.com, whic…
05.07.2016