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• Breakthrough Technologies Will Soon Leave Laboratories: School Students Share Their Vision Of Future

  …have access to faster and simpler information exchange. In some five years, we can expect to have much more powerful processors, as well as a real revolution in medicine: I want to believe that scientists will find a cure for cancer and many hereditary diseases, at last. Obviously, Elon Musk's ideas that have to do with SpaceX are enticing, as well. This is really…

  01.09.2017

• ITMO.GO: New Students Join the ITMO Family

  …ter Technologies Nikita Bagno I’d heard about ITMO University when I was in school and decided to apply here. Why? It was a conscious choice. I’m a perfectionist and I want everything in my life to be the best, including my university. I took part in the “ITMO VK” Olympiad, where I performed well in the English category and thus got 10 additional points for m…

  31.08.2017

• Back Into Swing: Life-hacks For Adapting Your Lifestyle

  … Two groups got a task: to count how many times some people on a video passed the ball to each other. Yet, one group had the permission to watch the Mr. Bean TV series if they wanted to, and the second group could hear their laughter and comments. It turned out that the second group that was tempted but could not distract themselves showed worse results. So don't bla…

  31.08.2017

• Divide and Conquer: How S&R Built a Successful Chemical Startup in Russia

  …nalized. “S&R” make components from metal, plastic and glass. Unique parts can be made, too. One of their previous orders involved a non-crackable reactor lid. “We really want to help scientists who encounter such problems. Chemical institutes used to have workshops on premises where scientists would be able to order the right parts, but this is not common anymo…

  30.08.2017

• FactoryFinder: ITMO Graduates Develop Service To Optimize Procurement

  …d entering new markets. “Our current task is to finish testing our ideas and get an end product that would be multi-purpose and correspond with our users’ needs. Also, we want to start working with new markets. There are many options available: the railway transport market, for instance, which has great volumes and many private companies” – comments Anastasia Ko…

  30.08.2017

• Russian-Japanese Exchange Program: Participants Share

  …’s books, and I grew up on cartoons by Hayao Miyazaki, but I’ve never been to places that inspired them, where they created their works. One could call it a dream come true! I wanted to see real Japan, find Japanese friends and share a piece of our culture with them, which may well slightly shock them, as much as theirs shocked us a bit. During the program, we vis…

  29.08.2017

• Relocation Tips: Banking in St. Petersburg

  … single metro station in the city, there are very few ATMs available in other parts of the country, and thus you’d be taking money out with a commision when you travel. If you want to open up another bank account that is more widely used there are a range you can choose from. Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, RaffeizenBank, Binbank, Rosbank, Promsvyazbank are amongst the lar…

  29.08.2017

• Mountaineers Name Peak After ITMO University

  …ost difficult route – you never do that during the first ascent; first, you discover the mountain and only then you try a more challenging route. On the other hand, we did not want the route to be too simple. Our goal was a peak not far (about 10 kilometers) from the Lenin Peak. At first, I planned to approach it from the south, as we were already quite familiar w…

  28.08.2017

• Bloomberg Experts: Semantic Tech to Improve Financial Operations

  …here are also national identifiers, as well as internal identifiers (created within a financial firm for its own database), which often leads to confusion. Let’s say two banks want to buy or sell some stock traded on MOEX. One bank is located in France, the other - in Great Britain. When conducting the trade, their trading systems send requests to the MOEX system usi…

  25.08.2017

• 3D Printers For Kids: A High-Tech Toy

  …m, its founder received valuable feedback on how to organize his business, as well as found two new members for his team – a school student and a university graduate, who both want to study at the university's FabLab and help with assembling the printers. About a week ago, Stanislav launched a printer production workshop at FabLab; what's more, he's planning to condu…

  25.08.2017