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• Academic Mobility: ITMO’s New Collaborations in France

  …t of small universities is to be replaced by big combined ones that will have many schools training students in different fields of science. By doing so, the French government wants to raise the competitiveness of French education. Also, such reform will ease the process of creating new collaborations, as making lots of agreements with different partners all over the…

  17.10.2016

• Pokémon and Headaches: What is Big Data?

  …messages. Is it a lot or not? Is this Big Data? Source: cont.ws Let's say you've decided to open your own business in Web analytics. And you have an order — some company wants to know today’s most popular hash-tags on Twitter. How do you do it? You can take a tweet, "disassemble" it into hash-tags and then put them into a database. For each hash-tag, you'll hav…

  17.10.2016

• Indexes That Matter: Elsevier’s Consultant on How to Use Bibliographic Databases

  …from about 22 thousand journals indexed by Scopus, whereas in Russia they only have about 1,500 journals to choose from. Anything else you'd like to mention? I also want to note that you have to rely not only on scientometric indexes, but expert opinions as well. To get a more or less accurate picture, you have to rely on at least two indexes. If you compa…

  14.10.2016

• #AEGEE: ITMO University is Coming Closer to the European Student Community

  … St. Petersburg, Anastasia Kachesova joined AEGEE events as a participant while studying at university. She visited several countries, met new people and then decided that she wanted to achieve more. AEGEE is based on democracy — all presidents and heads are elected by other members. Anastasia took this opportunity and now she is in charge of tons of things like orga…

  12.10.2016

• ITMO University Receives the UNESCO Award

  …in science, Nature named us a rising star: during the last three years, our university has greatly increased the number of publications with high citation rate. If a scientist wants to start a business, we also have all the appropriate facilities for it. We have business incubators, startup accelerators, an engineering center and other similar units. What is more, we…

  11.10.2016

• St. Petersburg Light Designers Illuminated Lomonosova Street

  …osova Street, which was lighted by designers. «Formerly, one could only see only shop windows and commercial signs on this street. When installing the lighting system, we wanted to outline a special space free from these things,» noted the expert. The first step of this project was visualizing of a model, then experts chose a light concept — there were lots…

  11.10.2016

• #VKlive: VK’s Developers Advise on How to Solve Highload Problems

  …u both time and trouble. Just roll the system back and study the problem to find a solution. If you do it fast, most users won't even notice anything. Work as a team if you want to solve your problem, and the main advice is — don't panic.   Vyacheslav Shebanov's lecture was part of the IT Hardcore international conference held on October, 8th, 2016.…

  11.10.2016

• Celebrating ITMO. STORE’s First Birthday

  … we will start making products for newborns and work on clothes for older children later. Konstantin: As in any other store, it’s important to understand what our customers want, that is, the students, teachers, graduates, friends and university’s partners. In fact, our products are often treated as souvenirs and people buy them to share a piece of the most non-cl…

  10.10.2016

• «The World Can Be Changed in Different Ways: I Want to Start with My University»

  …ent think about ecology in terms of social significance. Now she develops an educational project for freshmen who chose ecological engineering as their future profession. «I want them to know what opportunities they have even when they are still first-year students. I want them to apply this knowledge to real projects. Unfortunately, …

  10.10.2016

• Five Things We Loved Last Week

  …ecame NASA’s watchful eye and an invaluable research tool, delivering data in real time. Distracted much? It’s not about the difficulty of the task. It’s about how much you want it. Crowdfunding your research? From making a funny video to asking just for the right amount of money, there’re ways to boost your chances of financial success.…

  09.10.2016