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• Grants for Universities: One Has to Know When to Stop

  These days universities are more than "knowledge hubs." Modern universities also gain to satisfy needs of business and society. For these purposes they commercialize their innovations — this process is impossible without intellectual property laws. The participants of the multiregional seminar organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) discussed the details and difficulties of interaction of universities, government and the industry. ITMO’s Faculty of the International Business and Law was one of the main partners of the event.

  17.03.2017

• Soft Skills for Engineers: Students Presented Solutions for Real-Life Business Cases

  The participants of the First Grant Competition Contest presented their solutions for real industrial tasks offered by companies of the Joint-Stock Financial Corporation "Sistema."

  16.03.2017

• From Entertainment to Medicine: Programmers Presented their Projects at AI Hackathon

  The AI Hackathon took place in the Higher School of Economics last weekend. Fifty seven teams presented ML, DL and AI technologies for solving medical, financial, social and many other problems. During the hackathon’s finals, 38 teams presented their projects in a three-minute pitch format.

  14.03.2017

• The Results of Q.E.D Competition or How People Solved Math Tasks

  Last weekend ITMO hosted the Q.E.D Competition [from Latin "quod erat demonstrandum" which is "what was to be demonstrated" -Ed.]. The participants had to solve 10 tasks. They didn’t need to be versed in formula and theorems — one could solve everything using logic.

  13.03.2017

• Delicacy for Sportsmen- How to Eat Ice-Cream and Build Muscle

  Sport nutrition has never been so tasty — specialists of ITMO’s Department of Applied Biotechnology created a sugarless ice-cream with increased concentration of protein which helps build muscle.

  03.03.2017

• Interactive Microscopy for Children by ITMO University

  Specialists of NT-SPB, one of ITMO Technopark’s residents, developed an equipment system for interactive classes on physics. Some 18 high-schools of St. Petersburg have already installed the system in their classes where children will take the first steps towards science.

  27.02.2017

• Experience Exchange in the Field of Social Design: ITMO’s Specialists Visited UCLA

  A delegation of ITMO and other Russian universities took part in the internship devoted to social entrepreneurship and design by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Russians presented their projects to American experts and learned how people can be volunteers and businessmen at the same time.

  22.02.2017

• New Program for Crowd Behavior Analysis

  ITMO University scientists in alliance with international colleagues developed a program for bringing together computer models of crowd behavior. According to the authors, this helps forecast emergencies that appear during mass gatherings. The method already as a base for the crowd behavior study at the Kumbh Mela festival. The research article was published in Future Generation Computer Systems.

  21.02.2017

• Good Product: One-Click Food by Young Entrepreneurs

  Oleg Novikov and Mikhail Kozlov, residents of Future Technologies accelerator, talked about their unique project of food delivery service, which allows to forget about staying in lines at supermarkets and makes farm food more affordable.

  20.02.2017

• Engineers Teach Self-Driving Cars Think

  Self-driving cars is not a piece of science fiction — they have become part of today’s reality. According to the experts, this kind of transport is to make driving safer and reduce traffic density. However, traffic rules for self-driving cars are yet to be created. The main question is whether they have to be managed by a control unit or serve as autonomous systems? The residents of ITMO’s Future Technologies accelerator offered the multiagent control system for vehicle self-operation.

  17.02.2017