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• Mountaineers Name Peak After ITMO University

  …ed that the ITMO University Peak turned out to be not just a mountain, but an entire ridge – a mountain system of sorts. It has an Eastern summit and a Western one, from which massive ridges originate. There is a symbolism to it, as ITMO University, too, looks both East and West. We definitely have rituals. First off, we build a cairn, inside of which we place a c…

  28.08.2017

• ITMO’s Higher School of Lighting Design Enters PLDC's Top-5 Best Universities

  …n Paris. This year, no classical Lighting Design schools were nominated for the award; among the candidates are new and innovative educational programs: the Lighting Design Master’s program at Aalborg University has existed for some 3 years, and ITMO University’s Higher School of Lighting Design, or CLD ITMO University, has only been around for some two years. …

  28.08.2017

• Aleksandra Kalashnikova: We Need to Reconsider PhD Students’ Status

  … own, one has to make them interesting and comprehensible. Still, the Council will definitely continue to work in that direction. And, finally, please tell us about the new Master's program, Photonics of Dielectrics and Semiconductors that you'll be teaching. This is a Master's program organized by the Department of Dielectric and…

  23.08.2017

• Relocation Tips: Using Public Transport in St. Petersburg

  …und in St. Petersburg. By the time you walk to the other end of the platform another train has usually arrived. Other payment methods: You can use the PayPass technology of MasterCard to pay for your trip. MasterCard readers can be found in all the stations, most commonly next to the operator’s booth. If you have an Android smartphon…

  22.08.2017

• "In English, Please": De-Jargonizer Helps Make Science Accessible

  …. To determine the frequency of use of each word and assign it to one of the three groups and provide authors with the corresponding percentages, researchers have created a massive (500 thousand unique entries) article database. All words in the database are split into three categories: frequent (the 2000 most commonly used words in the English language and their …

  21.08.2017

• ICO-Hypethon: Will Bitcoin Take Over The World?

  …encies is yet to be regulated.   We'd like to note that ITMO University students study blockchain technologies as part of the Mathematical Physics and Information Theory Master's program which was launched at the Department of Mathematical Physics and Information Theory. The students study blockchain technologies as well as the methods of mathematical physics, …

  21.08.2017

• ITMO Students Take Part In Experimental Interaction Design Summer School

  …ted their first prototypes. After testing them, the students were given one week to assemble their inventions. Each project had three supervisors. The projects developed by Master’s students from ITMO University had to do with the sedentary lifestyle. The invention that Anna Ksenofontova worked on was for controlling the position of a person's back while he or she…

  18.08.2017

• Admission Campaign 2017: The Results

  …f students accepted received special bonuses and scholarships: 232 students received golden scholarships, 187 - silver and 158 - bronze. Six people got sports scholarships. Master's programs 7,257 students applied for ITMO's Master's programs, which is a thousand more than in 2016. The competition has increased as well: 3,845 …

  18.08.2017

• Scientists Learn To Predict Users' Preferences Based On Data From Social Networks

  …ofiles of users that have accounts in at least two of these networks. Scientists from Singapore, the article's authors Alexander Farseev and Professor Tat-Seng Chua gathered a massive amount of data on users who live in New York, Singapore and London. This data set was then used for training and testing the recommendation system on different geographical and cultural…

  18.08.2017

• Dave Vasquez: We Need To Start Teaching Entrepreneurship Back In School