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• ITMO Graduates Reflect on True Value of Education

  …etween students. I mean, students should form some sort of community where they would share ideas, innovations. For instance, Facebook was originally being created as a social network for Harvard. In case of ITMO University, they won’t even have to come up with something new: there already are platforms there that can maintain such communication, the web-portal, for …

  15.05.2018

• Computer Simulation to Make Cities Cleaner

  …s who are usually responsible for pedestrian infrastructure often don’t know how to make it right. They just need the investors to find the project appealing, so they design a network of paths as an artistic composition, which only birds can appreciate. People can’t use these paths and form the paths they want across lawns instead. What do you think about pede…

  14.05.2018

• Physicist Yuri Kivshar on Russian Science, Career Management and Metaoptics

  …ll about metals. How so? Well, because metals have a negative refraction index: if a wave hits metal, it is reflected entirely. Metal acts like a mirror, and the wave barely penetrates it. And nanophotonics is precisely about how light can be localized near the surface of metals and dielectrics and propagate in the form of surface plasmons. But the issue is that m…

  11.05.2018

• How Citizen Science Helps in “True” Research

  …tive project with professional scientists.” The definition appeared in 2014, the phenomenon itself, however, has been known since the XIX century. Obviously, there was no Internet two hundred years ago and the opportunities were limited compared to what we can do today. Nevertheless, there were many skilled naturalists who collected plants and insects back then. Alth…

  11.05.2018

• ITMO University Developing New Design System

  … fields, etc. They were all made at different times and by different teams, so there was no universal design guideline. The university’s websites were not seen as one, unified network, and developers had to spend quite a lot of time making them,” – she continues – “We now strive to redevelop these websites under one common style. For that end, we’ve involved designer…

  08.05.2018

• Portfolio Competition Open For Master’s Students

  …tition is an objective method for assessing students’ knowledge. Besides, the first two questions can help you understand whether you want to study at ITMO or not. Anton Kuznetsov, Master’s student at the Department of Financial Management and Audit I was sure that I would be accepted because I had a fairly good portfolio. I think that such a portfolio is t…

  08.05.2018

• ITMO University Wins State Support Research Grant

  …18. Applications were submitted in eight categories, including the technologies for Big Data storage and analysis, blockchain technologies, wireless technologies and the "Internet of Things", technology components of robotics and mechatronics, sensor technologies, quantum communication technologies, electric power transmission technologies and distributed intelligent…

  07.05.2018

• What Makes Creative Businesses Successful

  …act both tourists and locals. The main purpose of such places is to combine work and leisure. Creative spaces are engaged in a full cycle of creative production, from business networking and PR events to organizing creative forms of leisure. Why is it so important to analyse the dynamics of creative spaces? The thing is that such places act as breeding grounds for th…

  04.05.2018

• Russian Industry and Education Representatives Meet With Presidential Adviser on Internet Development

  …with the attempts to block a popular messenger app, has gone too far and transformed from a simple showdown between Durov (Pavel Durov – the founder of Telegram and the social network VK – Ed.) and Roskomnadzor into a battle, which has affected the Russian segment of internet. The damage from this war has cost millions to businesses. An…

  04.05.2018

• Jeffrey Donenfeld On How Russian Startups Can Enter US Market

  …erican business infrastructure. You can do it yourself or with the help of an accelerator (e.g. Boomtown works with startups on assessing these items all the time). Build a network of advisors Russian teams often come to the US thinking that they’ve come up with a cool technology, which they only have to present, and the trick is done. They present it, all the …

  03.05.2018