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

  …idance. They spend a lot of time in their laboratories and have the same responsibilities as their older colleagues. That is why our educational system has to reconsider their role. For instance, in Netherlands where I got my PhD they don't have such a term as "PhD student": they call it "research associate in training", meaning someone who already does research and …

  23.08.2017

• Relocation Tips: Using Public Transport in St. Petersburg

  … all the stations, most commonly next to the operator’s booth. If you have an Android smartphone with NFC, you can also download the “wallet” app and use it to pay. Buses, Trolleybuses and Trams These types of transport run either according to a schedule that can be found at the stops or in certain intervals that usually vary from 10 to 15 minutes. Lately, on s…

  22.08.2017

• TransformCity: The Amsterdam Approach to Urban Planning

  …e situation to the better. Together with some of them, we addressed the government and asked to solve the problem in such a way that though the government would still play its role in the process, but the decisions would come bottom-up - i.e. from the participants of our collaborative process. I hoped that together, we will be able to create some model that will allo…

  22.08.2017

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

  …, and nothing more. Time showed him wrong. In 1999, Milton Friedman stated that Internet will become one of the main factors that will contribute to diminishing of the state's role in economy, yet that will call for an independent e-currency. Friedman waited for it to appear; unfortunately, he died in 2006, before the first cryptocurrency emerged in 2009." On the …

  21.08.2017

• ITMO Students Take Part In Experimental Interaction Design Summer School

  …rvisors. 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 is sitting before a computer so as to avoid the development of problems related to bad posture. As a result, the team created a vest with…

  18.08.2017

• Admission Campaign 2017: The Results

  …l programs. According to the results of the Bachelor's program admission campaign, by August 8th, 2017 (the order for admission was issued on this date), 1,214 students were enrolled in state-sponsored position. 26 of these first years enrolled under the quota for target reception via a contract with Russia's high-tech industrial establ…

  18.08.2017

• ITMO & Australian Scientists Contribute to Latest Nanophotonics Review

  …graphy and the related fields. The authors hope that it will help researchers from all over the world be more conversant in the multitude of different approaches that help control light on a nano-scale. A surface colored by irreversible adjustment of single nanoparticles' optical properties "What will happen to a material if we light it with very weak light o…

  16.08.2017

• Gennady Korotkevich Wins Google Code Jam Fourth Time in a Row

• SHA2017: Summer Camp for Hackers

  …freedom of speech is becoming less available in the world. In its 2016 report, Reporters Without Borders describe an “"climate of fear and tension combined with increasing control over newsrooms by governments and private-sector interests”. The Silent Protest project was presented at the festival: a wearable DIY protest network build of inexpensive network gear and o…

  14.08.2017

• DemoDay: Projects from MIT Global Startup Labs and SumIT Startup School

  …orea. They are: Rozebelle, a smart security device for women that can send emergency messages to police and friends; juice delivery company “5AM”; “Idea Muse” potted plant control system. More about the projects here. These three teams have been selected from 14 South Korean applicants by the Chungbuk Center for Creative Economy & Innovation, a government organiza…

  11.08.2017