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Youth in Science: Summer Internship in Photonics and Optical IT
…ies for protecting its communication channels. The project has yet no counterparts in the world. The project's initiator was the Smarts Company that deals in telecommunication networks and high-reliability communications services.…
19.06.2017
Fintech Cup 2017 Lets Teams Compete for Chance to Work With Financial Giants
…nologies and the Eva Group. The competition is intended for students, postgraduates and recent alumni who are interested in working in the fields of payment technologies, internet of things, business analytics and programming. The competition consists of three stages. The first stage starts on June 24 and ends on June 30. The second is July 1 to 7 and, finally, th…
19.06.2017
5 Things You Need to Know Now
…um particles from a satellite to ground stations separated by 1200 kilometers, smashing the previous world record. The result is a stepping stone to ultra-secure communication networks and, eventually, a space-based quantum internet. Energy stored in electric vehicles can be used to power large building. UK researchers discover that …
18.06.2017
ITMO Fellowship Stories: Italian Professor Shares his Thoughts about the Stradivarius of Science
…d not be so easy to find funding for purely fundamental projects the way he had done before. He started looking for devices that could be directly applied to the optical fiber network, including novel glass microring resonators, which are increasingly used to generate optical frequency combs – one of such systems is now used in the framework of his collaboration with…
15.06.2017
Airalab: The New Robot Economics Doctrine
…llow exchanging money, property, stocks or any assets without having to use agents. The contracts are written as code, saved and backed up in the system, and are executed by a network of computers that manage the blockchain. In fact, Sergei Lonshakov had quite a vague understanding of Ethereum and smart contracts at that time – the team had to experiment a lot, a…
15.06.2017
ITMO International Days: Best Practices
…al portal has a lot to do with that. Among other things, it is also the source of data that is used by experts who work on international rankings. Statistics show that an Internet user decides on whether he's interested in a website or not in just about 10 seconds, during which not only do you have to attract them, but also provide quick access to the data they seek.…
14.06.2017
ITMO-UCLA Partner Program Graduates Showcase Projects
…L. Horton, Associate Director of UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Center. Lisa Audish (middle) Ms. Audish’s project involved the development of an all-encompassing social network for UCLA’s administrative staff. The main purpose of such a network is to exchange information among the staff and provide opportunities for growth, work …
13.06.2017
What is “True” Ecology?
… for the environment - or that is the widely accepted definition. But, for different people, “showing concern” can mean different things: from making related posts on the Internet to taking direct action; there is even such a phenomenon as eco-terrorism (civil disobedience and sabotage in the name of environmental causes). Some trace environmentalism to as early as t…
09.06.2017
“Natural” AI: On the Way to Whole Brain Emulation
…Back when he was studying at St. Petersburg State University, Ilya Sapranidi did research on artificial neural networks while also reading up on life extension and bioinformatics. All these topics are now being intertwined in the concept of brain emulation which is gaining more and more support among scientists worldwide. There are several major projects that aim to …
09.06.2017
ITMO University’s Business-incubator is IIDF’s “Incubator of the Year”
… Today the “Internet entrepreneurship” course is being implemented in 131 universities across Russia – from Kaliningrad to Russky Island. According to Margarita Zobnina, the program's author, ITMO University’s projects are distinguished by their technical level. The University’s Incubator presented well-packaged projects with high commercial potential, the t…
09.06.2017