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• How Online Courses Can Benefit Both Students and Universities

  … both students and universities? The main advantage of online learning is that it allows for a more personal approach to education. How do they work? First, a student picks certain online courses depending on their field of study and the skills they want to acquire. Universities, in turn, analyze their choices and create new online courses that cater to the students’…

  20.04.2018

• ITMO University Launches New Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Master’s Program

  …urnals, - shares Alexey Sergushichev, Assistant Professor at ITMO’s Computer Technology Department and head of the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Master’s program. At a certain point, the launching of our own Master’s program on bioinformatics and systems biology has become a logical continuation of our workings. So, we’ve adressed Nikolay Vyahhi, the Insitute’s …

  20.04.2018

• Irina Hussainova: Estonian “Scientist of the Year”

  …ns but the main focus was on cooperation with industry, the amount of funds supporting the university as well as the number of successfully graduated PhD students. I was certainly very pleased when I learned I became the scientist of the year. If you consider the technical requirements, however, you could assume that I might get the title. Moreover, last year was …

  20.04.2018

• Russia Secures ACM ICPC-2018 World Champion Title

  …on expands its geographical scope: this year 140 teams from 51 countries competed for the main prize. This year’s ACM ICPC is held for the 42nd time. The 2018 contest is certainly a stand-out. Since 2012, the World Cup was consistently taken by two universities of St. Petersburg - ITMO University (four wins since 2012) and St. Petersburg State University (two wins…

  19.04.2018

• Results of European Parliament Discussion on Robot Economy

  …technologies. Artificial intelligence is no longer seen as a reproduction of human cognitive functions, but as something that interacts with its environment and carries out certain actions. According to Prof. Bonsignorio, there are currently two different models of creation and interaction for robots and AI: Reliability-based. This is, for instance, Google’s…

  18.04.2018

• Danish Exchange Students Developing Lighting Design Solution for St. Petersburg Park

  …ight. Beata: I, personally, think that it’s important to show the contrast between light and shadow: some buildings can be illuminated more, some less. It helps show off certain buildings and some of the particularly interesting architectural elements. Of course, you’d have to develop a specific concept for each specific street. Paulina: I’ll agree that there’s…

  17.04.2018

• Arizona University Expert: Why People Don’t Want to Learn Foreign Languages

  …could easily talk to me in English. How is that? Well, if you’re a school student there, you simply can’t get into the next grade if you don’t pass an English exam. After a certain age, all their classes are taught in English only. This is why the graduates there speak fluent English and can go abroad to work and support their families. To them, a second language is …

  17.04.2018

• New Research Allows Jet-Printing of Piezostructures and Holograms on Any Surface

  …ry. With direct printing, holograms can be put on paper, plastic or glass. This is possible due to specially developed ink and a controlled printing mechanism. The ink contains submicronic spheres which form into tightly-packed grids when they dry. Passing through them, the light refracts and, depending on the angle of incidence, reflects in different wavelength…

  16.04.2018

• Total Dictation-2018 at ITMO University

  …14 years it has become an international initiative. In 2018, the event was organized for the first time in Costa Rica, Panama, Syria, Qatar, and Hungary, as well as in the mountains of Northern Caucasus, and, for the second time, on the International Space Station. The text for the dictation is always written by a famous writer. This year, it was written by Gu…

  16.04.2018

• Bar Talk: Young Scientists on Making a Career, Finding Your Place and Globalization of Science

  …extremely fast while the number of available professorships grows very slowly, and so the competition for the professorships intensifies. In a report on careers in science, Britain’s leading scientific society, the Royal Society of London, shows the main stages of a scientific career, indicating during which stages the weeding-out of specialists occurs. The report fi…

  13.04.2018