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Seven Words that Describe ITMO in 2017
New Opportunities: ITMO University Revamps Its Entrepreneurial Activities
…we chose projects from the university’s pool of inventions and gave them to the students to work with. As a result, the developer team got an understanding of where and how certain inventions could be applied. Our current task is to systematize such activities. So the education process will focus on a project approach? Yes, and the other important change is tha…
29.12.2017
ITMO’s Technopark Resident Company Takes Best BioTech Innovations Prize in Hong Kong.
…ere stress. The company's executives also see good prospects in its application for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. The medicine is a regular capsule, which contains a new derivative of creatine, a nitrogen-containing carboxylic acid, which participates in energy metabolism in the human body. In the course of chemical sy…
28.12.2017
Yandex.Taxi and Programmers’ Ability To Predict Users’ Behavior
…rators who distributed orders via phones. Then, GPS was invented, then they started to use destination routing, and account for traffic jams when estimating distances. At a certain point, it seemed that one can’t do anything more to improve the operation of a taxi service. Yet, there are many more factors that define a service’s popularity and efficiency. For inst…
27.12.2017
Scientists Launched a New Method for Microscopy of Nanoobjects
…Nanotube-based materials have multiple applications from diagnosis and treatment of diseases to cooling systems in electronics. However, it is challenging to obtain materials with certain characteristics without a deep understanding of their properties. Scientists usually study nanotubes with atomic force microscopy based on scanning a …
26.12.2017
ITMO’s Future Technologies Alumni Develop a 3D Printer And Win RSCI Grant
…me specific fields where we can work. The biomedical industry could invest in the project right now because we already have an initial version of the device. So, one can be certain of how this device works. Getting investments from companies at other markets is much more difficult because they need the final product. The cost of our 3D printer’s final version is now …
26.12.2017
Double Degree Programs in Iceland: Recent Participants Share
…tion (for instance, upwards can mean “one” and downwards “zero”). The precision and storage reliability of a recording depends on one’s ability to control the encoding and maintain the magnetization direction. The demand for higher capacity makes developers try to decrease the size of all of the computer parts, magnetic storage systems included. Lesser magnets mea…
25.12.2017
Ilya Nikiforov, Founder Of TeachMePlease, On Blockchain in Education
…ill get an opportunity to exchange digitized data patterns of candidate profiles; websites like HeadHunter would upload these profiles to find candidates that correspond to certain requirements. As everything is digitized (test results, assessments, etc,), this data will be seen as a lot more credible. Also, one would get the opportunity to use the system to…
22.12.2017
All-Russian NTI Engineering Competition: Young Engineers’ Budding Talent
…ank the quality of the proposed solutions more effectively," says Mikhail Mukhin. Mikhail Mukhin Parallel to solving the tasks of the contest tracks students could obtain additional knowledge necessary for performing tasks in interdisciplinary areas. Simultaneously with the competition, Stepik.org platform launched online courses that helped participants br…
21.12.2017
Future Technologies Accelerator Unveils New Projects Lineup
…e former, the students will, at first, use sight to work with objects; later on, the developers plan to create special devices to track their hand movements. VR-videos will contain brief descriptions of lectures. “At first, we plan on introducing educational videos, thus promoting our brand’s visibility. To do that, we’ll probably be collaborating with priva…
20.12.2017