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VK-Fest: A Chance To Showcase ITMO University's Latest Innovations
…official wording, provide “educational services”, but if we treat education as a service then we will end up with semi-experts. Education at ITMO University is a joint effort between teachers and students, and over the last few years, students are taking more and more initiative,” and this was evident during VK Fest, with students explaining and demonstrating innovat…
18.07.2016
Cities of the Future
…res that the population takes responsibility and has a desire to better their environment. Smart cities imply minimizing administrative instruments necessary for interactions between citizens and the government. Over the last ten years, various systems that simplify these interactions are being implemented in St. Petersburg. Online forms for registry offices are alre…
18.07.2016
Choosing Landmarks that Capture the Spirit of Russia for New Paper Bills
…ussia – the Vienna Music Film Festival. It has also been a venue for many forums and conferences. The first stage ends on July 28. The second stage will be an opinion poll between 6,000 citizens conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation, in order to choose 10 cities and 20 symbols for the Internet voting in the third stage, which will be carried out from Septembe…
18.07.2016
New Master's Students Will Research Technologies Which Will Change the Face of Economics
…he 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
Safe Smart Houses: Soon You Will Live in One Too
…gey 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 pe…
15.07.2016
Crowd Math: Researchers from St. Petersburg, Amsterdam and Bangalore Made the World's Largest Social Experiment
… to determine who sneezed first, we want to understand how urban spaces and their structure affect the spreading of infections. A model consists of cause-effect relationships between the characteristics of objects. The main aim is to embody these relations. The information can be represented not only as math formulas, but also as a computer code, which serves as a “b…
12.07.2016
Science Communication With a View Over Sicily
Building a Bridge to Asia
…sian universities took part in the event. Olga Golodets, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, who took part in the event talked about how strengthening agreements between Russian and Chinese universities is the path towards joint success in education and science. During the 2014-2015 academic year there were a lot of joint activities as part of the…
08.07.2016
Choose Your Own Path with Distance Learning
…adjust the educational process according to student’s personal needs. “It is extremely important to realize that distance learning at our Chair is based on communication between the student and professor. At the beginning of each semester, every student gets access to their courses and then is able to plan his schedule based on certain deadlines. Each stage of t…
07.07.2016
Good News for Coders: Google and Facebook are Hiring
…y Thursday night there's a little party at the office. There's a also a kitchen, and staffers don't need to worry about where to get breakfast, lunch or dinner. Communication between colleagues is informal. Anyone can approach Mark Zuckerberg. Everyone is very friendly, and that's great. You don't have to be genius to join Facebook of Google. As practice shows, I…
05.07.2016