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• ITMO's PhD Students Will Simplify Online Learning On OpenEdX

  …atform has many such courses. It already contains thousands of educational programs developed by different educational establishments. Previously there was no interconnection between them - no direct links from one course to another that would have helped the user get comprehensive knowledge in a particular field. Such an approach is quite effective, as the users …

  20.06.2017

• Lawns vs. Paths: Why Urban Planners Can’t Please Everybody

  …an understanding of what factors can lead to harmful scenarios like, say, stampedes. Tell us about some of the most unusual discoveries you’ve made when studying urban networks? Most of my work concerns modeling large-scale complex systems, such as urban processes and human behavior. Together with other researchers we’ve discovered a few interesting things.…

  20.06.2017

• Youth in Science: Summer Internship in Photonics and Optical IT

  …es 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

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …m 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 by intelligently managing vehicl…

  18.06.2017

• Prime Minister Medvedev Congratulates ACM ICPC Winners

  … Northern Capital can, deservedly, be referred to as the world’s IT Capital: for six years in a row, the ACM ICPC Champion Cup has not left the city, only switching locations between ITMO University and St. Petersburg State University. “Our students’ latest victory at the world’s biggest programming contest and Google’s appointment of Kotlin language as an offic…

  16.06.2017

• ITMO Fellowship Stories: Italian Professor Shares his Thoughts about the Stradivarius of Science

  … 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

  …low 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, an…

  15.06.2017

• ITMO International Days: International Collaboration as One of the Main Trends

  …ies for attracting foreign students and supporting them, skills and approaches to teaching technical sciences, as well as discussed the importance of strategical partnerships between universities. During the second day, ITMO’s students got the chance to learn more about different foreign partner universities and ask questions about their programs, educational proc…

  13.06.2017

• ITMO-UCLA Partner Program Graduates Showcase Projects

  …. 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 a…

  13.06.2017

• “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