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• Game Development Education on the Rise in Russia

  …uld the graduates of such programs be met on the market. And that’s where it really gets bad. Alexander Mezin Andrey Karsakov, Research Associate at ITMO University’s eScience Research Institute and Lecturer at High Performance Computing Department: There is also a Bachelor’s program at the Moscow Polytechnic. There are programs outside the capital region, to…

  14.07.2017

• How Researchers Use Social Media to Find Cool Spots and Fight Crime

  …Sentiment analysis Ksenia Mukhina and Vasiliy Boychuk, researchers from ITMO University’s eScience Research Institute, have found a variety of uses for software that analyses the emotions of groups of people based on their social media posts. The first large-scale test of this technology was presented at the booth of the youth camp “Sirius” in Sochi. Their intenti…

  13.07.2017

• ITMO Technopark Resident Receives 44 Million for HIV Cure Development

  …rea, conducting a virtual tour or making a delivery. The “Drone Employee” project, represented by Alexander Kapitonov, an assistant researcher at Department of Computer Science and Control Systems, was awarded the diploma of a winner in the nomination “Best Mentor-Project Relationship” by the federal accelerator for technological startups Generation S. The pro…

  13.07.2017

• Forming Bonds: Visiting Scientists on Chemistry Research and Working Abroad

  … presence of pollutant molecules, be used for catalysis, as optical sensors, in photovoltaic technologies, and to potentially improve the features of solar cells. Materials science engineer Rafaella Precker is from the North-East part of Brazil, a city called Campina Grande. It’s much like Leipzig as it is a typical university city.  Her work is mostly focused on …

  12.07.2017

• ITMO Enters Medialogia's Universities Media-Ranking

• First Russian Li-Fi Network Launched at ITMO University

  …hieve higher data transmission rates. Harald Haas, professor at the University of Edinburgh, was the first one to introduce Li-Fi on a TED-conference in 2011. There the scientist demonstrated the technology’s working principles and outlined its pros and cons. Li-Fi  is beneficial not only in terms of speed, but also in terms of electricity savings: it eliminat…

  12.07.2017

• ITMO Researchers Seek to Improve MOOC Effectiveness

  …year university students. As Lyubov Lisitsyna notes, the program has already proven its effectiveness in practice. The system was first tested by students studying computer science and discrete math. The experiment was conducted as follows: the students had completed an online exam on a particular subject and were then separated into a reference group and an activ…

  11.07.2017

• Andrey Stankevich: Komsomolskaya Pravda’s Media-Person of the Year

  …Each year Komsomolskaya Pravda grants awards to artists, athletes, scientists, businessmen and other subjects of the most resounding news stories. This year, Andrey Stankevich, coach of ITMO University’s programming team, was given the award for “helping achieve worldwide recognition for ITMO University and for bringing up the world’s champions in programming”. Mr…

  10.07.2017

• MIT Experts on Russian Entrepreneurship

  … will present their application prototypes. The whole process will be supervised by MBA students from MIT representing the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and students from Sloan School of Management – Khatantuul Zorig Filer, Shruti Banda, Annie Phan and Damian Barabonkov. They shared with us their thoughts about the strengths and weaknes…

  10.07.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  … bridges—can break down in as few as 50 years. But more than a thousand years after the western Roman Empire crumbled to dust, its concrete structures are still standing. Now, scientists have finally figured out why: a special ingredient that makes the cement grow stronger—not weaker—over timey found that the seawater reacts with volcanic ash and crystals to form Al-…

  09.07.2017