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• PhD Vitaly Aksenov: Coding For Someone Other Than Myself Is Boring

  …ing sports programming and finding oneself in science I graduated from school when I was 15, and at that time, I didn't really know what I was going to do. I had to choose between going to the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of the St. Petersburg State University and ITMO University, but in the former case, it wasn’t clear what to do after, whereas with ITMO …

  16.10.2018

• Open Innovations 2018: Higher Education in the Digital Age

  …ich, in turn, makes some traditional educational approaches increasingly irrelevant. What needs to be done to make the system work? How to create conditions for collaboration between businesses and universities? Business’ perspective: what does industry want from universities? According to Siemens Vice President Martin Gitsels, who talked about how companies wo…

  16.10.2018

• Faculty of Physics and Engineering Staff to Republish Legendary Soviet Physicist’s Works

  …‘The Unusual Laws of Refraction and Reflection’ narrates its story in the form of a lively dialog between the physicist father and his high-schooler son. The explanatory monologs are punctuated with to-the-point remarks and comparisons with physics theory from the school curricula. The narrator often draws analogies between the theory a…

  15.10.2018

• The 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics: Any Lessons for Russia?

  …9. He is most widely known for his research on economic modeling and climate change. The scientist was the first to create a quantitative model showing the global interaction between economy and climate. Nordhaus posited that the most effective solution to man-made global warming is a world-encompassing carbon tax system, and explained how human welfare will be impac…

  15.10.2018

• Rostelecom’s Project Leader Alisa Korzhenevskaya: We’re Slowly but Surely Digitizing the World Around Us

  …sis for developing a viable IT product. We also shouldn’t forget about other hi-tech solutions for saving users time and effort: artificial intelligence, smart cities, neural networks, blockchain already feature in a wide range of real-world IT projects. Finally, it’s crucial to always keep in mind a digital profile of an everyday citizen. We’re moving towards dig…

  12.10.2018

• How to Write a Thesis on Marvel Comic Books: PhD Student Daniil Shirokov Explains

  …e time when the number of nuclear warheads finally hit the ceiling, so Hulk, this uncontrollable, ferocious creature, personifies the public fear of the looming nuclear clash between the two superpowers.   If we delve into the social context of the period, we can find plenty of similar references, for example, in the complicated figure of Hulk himself. His rea…

  12.10.2018

• Motasem Awaja’s Journey: A 2018 Open Doors Scholarship Winner

  …ce to go for ITMO. In May of this year, he got the long-awaited news that he was accepted to the program, which was all the more exciting given that at the time the border between Gaza and Egypt was open. Overjoyed, Motasem quickly packed his bags and prepared to leave Palestine as fast as he could, even though he hadn’t yet received his invitation for a Russian s…

  11.10.2018

• Novgorod State University Hosts ITMO.REGIONS Innovation Weekend

  …ITMO.REGIONS is a trans-regional network of ITMO University startup schools aimed at developing project activities and tech companies in Russia’s many regions. As part of this innovative project, the staff of ITMO’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Technologies have already hosted a series of startup schools in Crimea, Tomsk, Ekaterinburg, Sochi, Ulan-Ude, Volgograd and …

  11.10.2018

• University of Amsterdam Professor on the Importance of Crowd Behavior Research and Putting Minecraft to Good Use

  … on our priority of creating a flexible environment,” explained Prof. Lees. The research project drew on a sampling of 44 players represented by 13 women and 31 men aged between 18 to 30 years old. Even Minecraft novices could participate in the game, which will take 30-45 minutes depending on a player’s experience. The data was gathered over the course of four …

  11.10.2018

• ITMO University Launches Digital Humanities Research Lab

  …tly involves both specialists from the National Library of Russia who provide the data pool and researchers from ITMO University who specialize in machine learning and neural networks. The project is planned for two years; the team is currently working on its first stage, and aspires to conduct its closed alpha-testing by the end of the year. The end product will be …

  11.10.2018