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ITMO University Graduate Stepan Rakitin on Making a Career in IT and Working at a Startup
…er two years, the price was $1.8 billion. 2017 was the year of fintech startups and mobile banks. We launched almost every hype thing that was popular back then: commission-free cryptocurrency and share trading, and currency exchange at actual market prices. It was one of the key factors of this success and rapid growth. Over the two years I spent there, I ga…
25.05.2020
Researchers Develop Material Capable of Being Transparent or Reflective in IR Spectrum
…e’ve made calculations to see what this new composite material would look like,” says Pavel Trofimov, a PhD student at the Faculty of Physics and Engineering. “We have an inclusion of GeSbTe embedded as a thin layer between two layers of silicon. It’s a sort of sandwich: first we coat a blank substrate with silicon, then put on a layer of phase-change material, and t…
25.05.2020
Create Artificial Cold and Learn to Apply Cryogenic Technologies: Master’s Studies at ITMO’s Faculty of Cryogenic Engineering
…which means that the graduates will find it easy to find employment. “I decided to apply to Master’s studies in order to advance my competencies in the field of my professional specialization,” shares Maxim Poltoratsky, class of 2014. “My work was associated with the creation of new types of climate technology. The faculty staff was at the onset of the developm…
22.05.2020
Navigating in the World of 8,000 Programming Languages
…young specialists (so, among the majority of them) that the more job offers that require an expertise in a certain stack there is, the more significant this stack is for professional activities. Others, however, evaluate the supply and demand relationship, and they understand that, for example, Haskell and Erlang have a great potential. Erlang is the most importan…
22.05.2020
ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies Launches a Contest for the Best Model of Commercialization of Innovative Technologies
…How to help an innovation find its customer, and bring together investors and inventors? This is the domain of sales management professionals involved in the promotion of hi-tech products. It is for these specialists that ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies has launched this contest. “Our center’s operation is supported by a consortium …
21.05.2020
R&D Projects Competition Winners On Their Creations and University Support
… at $6-7,000. And our manipulator will be significantly cheaper. The existing industrial solutions tend to use metals, drives and reduction gear that all require high-precision production. We substitute metals with cheaper materials and use a belting gear, which doesn’t need this much precision, instead of reduction gear. All of tha…
21.05.2020
ITMO Research: ITMO University Launches a New Popular Science Podcast
…the host of ITMO Research). What is the concept behind ITMO Research? Dmitry Kabanov: We will talk with researchers, staff members of laboratories, professors, and professionals from various fields that are related to ITMO University. We’ll try to make it interesting for a wide audience. In a way, the concept of new sincerity will come in handy here: we’re tryi…
21.05.2020
Shireen Hilal: I Believe Students Should Always Focus on Educational Goals and Work Hard
…developing a new definition of literature and technology, especially when it comes to the arts. I loved the innovation of the Russian musicians and composers who added more passion for classical music, such as Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Anton Rubinstein. Of course, there are also amazing singers like Alexander Gradsky, Anna German, and many others. Finally, I …
21.05.2020
A Quantum Walk Forward: Researchers Find Way to Discern Cases of Effective and Ineffective Quantum Computation
…een quantum random walks and regular ones is that the speed of a walk is squared in the former case. This is what’s called quantum acceleration. This begs the natural conclusion: if random walks are at the basis of computer algorithms, then quantum calculations, too, must be faster to the second power than regular ones. That is why the creation of a full-fledged q…
20.05.2020
Four ITMO University Students Receive SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
… THz pulse. Such lasers tend to cost around 5-10 million rubles. We are working on a spectrometer that functions on a multimode laser diode. Thanks to the great number of extensional modes, the system works in a wide range of THz frequencies, but its price is cut down by 8 to 10 times. Thus, it becomes more accessible and can be used, for instance, in medicine. T…
20.05.2020