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New Master's Students Will Research Technologies Which Will Change the Face of Economics
…the picture on the basis of this technology. Blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a digital copy of data records. The technology is ideal for situations when network nodes are run anonymously, and have operators who are not trustworthy. Members of the network can use “smart contracts” which formalize the interactions b…
15.07.2016
IT Breakthrough: Young Experts Teach Computers to Make Decisions
…tial education. It means that knowledge received at a course is necessary to start the next one. To determine and analyze interconnection of competencies the technology uses genetic algorithms and so-called Bloom’s Taxonomy. It includes classification rules of learning objectives. According to this theory, there are six cognitive levels such as “remember,” “understan…
15.07.2016
Safe Smart Houses: Soon You Will Live in One Too
…rgey Zimnenko notes that the final encryption algorithm they chose was based on results of his final research project. The protocol consists of three parts: routing within the network, encryption and automation. The last component is the most important and laborious one, which Aleksey Silayev is responsible for. Denis Nevmerzhitskiy says that the speed of market p…
15.07.2016
Choose Your Own Path with Distance Learning
… that for those Master’s Students who are specializing in “Web-technologies” and “Computer graphics and web-design” it is possible to communicate with professors over the Internet. Attendance is necessary only when presenting the final thesis. This way of studying avoids some of the disadvantages inherent in full-time study. Additionally, it makes it possible to a…
07.07.2016
ITMO Students are Winners at the VK Cup-2016 Championship
…ce”. Mr. Bardashevich, together with Gennady Korotkevich formed the winning pair that took first place at the third open programming tournament organized by the popular social network “VKontakte” with the assistance of Codeforces platforms. The championship final took place on 3 July in St. Petersburg at the main office of the social net
04.07.2016
Graphene: Material of the Future
… Denisultanov has discovered that due to graphene’s properties, terahertz radiation generation can be obtained by using optical/electrical pumping increased by the external magnetic field and temperature. He says that “graphene was discovered more than ten years ago and there are still many contradicting studies and results.” He hopes that through his research, he wi…
04.07.2016
Live Music Events in St. Petersburg: 10 Reasons to Go Outside in July
…rockers Sigur Ros, Canadian electronic experimentalists Crystal Castles, breaking local boys Short Paris and a bunch of DJs. More details here. Russia’s most popular social network, Vkontakte, hosts its own festival, VK Fest, an event consisting of music performances, interactive shows, workshops. Those who are more conservative can visit the Night of Music F…
02.07.2016
Future EdTech: To Be or Not To Be
… that will help people slide into the future with ease. He went on to say that "We are on the verge of something bigger. The atmosphere in the market is similar to the early nineties, before the emergence of the Web. If you lived then and knew that there would be the Internet, what would you have developed? Probably an indexing system, …
01.07.2016
Natural Metabolite Can Suppress Inflammation
…The work, which united scientists from Washington University in St. Louis, ITMO University, McGill University and Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, was based on the study of macrophages – immune system cells in charge of fighting pathogens. An important feature of macrophages is their ability to switch between different states depending on the co…
30.06.2016
Yuri Kivshar: “IT's MOre Than a University” is a Gorgeous Motto!”
…etamaterials write promising articles published in Scopus and Web of Science. Last year ITMO U's physicists developed a pioneering work – they analyzed a new type of electromagnetic structure that would be a breakthrough in optical data transfer. Optics & Photonics News included the article in the top-20 research papers of 2015. One more reason for being a part of…
29.06.2016