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56th in the Times Higher Education Ranking: Reasons Behind ITMO’s Success
…ts. According to Ilya Kuftiryov, Head of ITMO’s Center for Rating Studies, one of the key factors that contributed to ITMO’s success in getting into the top of Computer Science subject ranking was its' leap in publication activity that resulted in a great amount of citations. «Naturally, increasing the number of publications does not necessarily lead…
04.10.2016
Russia’s «First Non-Classical» Welcomes: an Open Day at ITMO’s School of Internet Technologies and Programming
…g the code, and information communication technologies are now used for much more than just service functions. «For a really long time, information technologies served other sciences and applications areas: let's say, someone sold watermelons and kept his books on paper, then decided to use special software — so he turned to IT specialists. But the application of I…
03.10.2016
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Wiki-Conference 2016: The Problem of Rights and Freedom
… a new policy for copyright laws in Russia. They plan to provide public access to most objects that have not been yet protected, as well as open the access to works of art and scientific results that have been funded by the government. Thanks to that, people will escape the «Dark Age», and science will acquire a new momentum. In some co…
03.10.2016
From Fashion to the Everyday Life: What is a «Smart Chameleon Jacket»?
…lements they can be broken. Roman tries to solve this problem by developing flexible electronics on the polymer support. This research project is conducted at the base of Art&Science, the scientific cluster of ITMO University. The student also plans to collaborate with the Department of Applied and Computer Optics. …
30.09.2016
A Women’s Job: ITMO’s PhD Student on Her Award-Winning Project
…'s job, as my task is to disturb the ideal model, to induce parasitic effects — and then think how to deal with it all». Daria presented her results at the Second Nationwide Scientific Forum «Science of the Future — Science of the Young» that took place in Kazan from September 20th till 23rd. The young <…
30.09.2016
Affairs of the Heart: How to Fight Cardio Diseases by Medicine and IT
…ce of professionals in bioinformatics they can extract the necessary information from this large amount of data. While geneticists generate and manage the data, bioinformatics scientists process it. As Anna Kostareva mentioned, working on the project PhD students sometimes find the data, which biologists could hardly hope to get. Thus, the 12 months collaboration has…
29.09.2016
ITMO University is in the Top-100 for Computer Science According to THE
…Every year, Times Higher Education ranks universities within subject areas, that is six areas of knowledge. One of these is the Computer Science field. There are 13 indicators used for the subject rankings, organized into five groups. Among the key criteria is teaching, research, knowledge transfer, citations, industry income and international outlook. While the o…
28.09.2016
Student Entrepreneurship — Foreign Experts Share their Experience
… year's second semester. I strongly believe that the sooner you do it, the better — and it's especially important for those students who don't want to continue their career in science. Laurie Tenhunen, HAMK University of Applied Sciences (Finland) At our university, we use modern educational methods to instill more respo…
28.09.2016
Grants of 2016: ITMO University will get 90 million rubles funding for developing new hybrid materials for a new generation of optoelectronics
…e the efficiency of solar batteries and LEDs. What's more, thanks to the low costs and simplicity of perovskites, this may lower the costs of devices based on them. Thus, some scientists forecast that soon modern smartphones and tablet PC's will be replaced by new compact and efficient optical devices based on metamaterials and new hybrid structures. «We really nee…
28.09.2016