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• “I Am a Professional” Winners On How Competition Changed Their Lives

  …on social media and decided to click on it. After learning that it was hosted by ITMO University, Yandex and Sberbank, I got very excited because I’d been dreaming of doing my Master’s at ITMO since my second year of university studies, so I immediately decided to participate. I took part in “I am a Professional” through the Computer Science track. I’m majoring in…

  20.07.2018

• ITMO Graduates Participate in School of Science Journalism in Erice

• Movie Fridays: Summer in the City

  …deline and their somewhat bumpy relationship, shot on a 16mm film camera in the captivating scenery of New York. Likewise, the new Mamma Mia has just dropped in the cinemas internationally (though the release date in Russia is August 16 - possibly one to note in your diary). Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again is a follow-up of the 2008 musical romcom which, despite i…

  20.07.2018

• Decline of Antibiotics and Nanoparticle Drugs of the Future

  …pic: a European Union initiative on the creation of digital twins. It’s a large project that involves more than 200 researchers from 32 countries, all of whom are working on a massive database with information on every citizen of the EU. Thanks to machine learning, we’ll be able to predict and diagnose diseases, as well as create new medicines. One of the project’s s…

  19.07.2018

• Emotional AI Helps Enhance Productivity and Fight Stress

  …losed country and many people find it easier to communicate with a system, rather than with each other. However, creating humanoid robots inevitably leads to some ethical dilemmas, for example, one of human-robot relationships. There’s a recent Youtube video where a human is beating up a robot. After much uproar, it turned out that this was an experiment conducted by…

  19.07.2018

• ITMO Student on Using IT to Help People With Dementia

  …ation can be easily represented as a graph. Why visualize such data in 3D? Despite all its advantages, representing data as graphs has its deficiencies. For one, comparing two massive graphs represented in 2D can be quite hard, while in three-dimensional space one can place the graphs one after the next, thus making the process easier. On the initial stage of his wor…

  18.07.2018

• Computer Simulation Technologies: New Master’s Program at ITMO

  …This Master’s program is a new version of the old program called “Mathematical Models and Computer Simulation”, which has undergone significant changes. While the old program focused mainly on theory and applied mathematics, the new one combines theory and practice, which is beneficial for both students and the industry. “Computer simulation systems are used in …

  17.07.2018

• ITMO University Makes a Big Debut in 2018 Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

  … 52 subjects. Coming in on top with its 17 first places is Harvard, which leads in 9 Social Sciences, 4 Medical Sciences, 2 Life Sciences and 2 Engineering subject categories. Massachusetts Institute of Technology tops 5 subject categories, 4 of which belong to the Engineering group. The Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects has been published by the Shangh…

  17.07.2018

• How Do Russian MOOC Platforms Compete With World Top MOOC Providers? Courseburg Investigates

  …Although the actual term entered the world dictionaries only in 2008, first prototypes of MOOCs, massive online open courses, date back to as early as 2001, when Massachusetts Institute of Technology went digital with its education  resources. Other education institutions quickly jumped on the online learning bandwagon. All this led to …

  16.07.2018

• Urban Scientist Steve Kuddins on Overfencing in St. Petersburg: Causes and Solutions

  …te for Research and Design of the Ministry of Construction and Housing, they estimate the border value for such an angle at 30 degrees. Having used the data from a last year's Master's thesis that analysed over a hundred of places with spontaneous trails, we've estimated the angle which the pedestrians are likely to cut at 38 degrees. We've updated the algorithm with…

  13.07.2018