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ITMO’s Future Technologies Alumni Develop a 3D Printer And Win RSCI Grant
… microcontrollers programmer Andrei Laidus, The Bonch-Bruevich SUT alum. Anna Martynova and Ksenia Goryachaya, our trainees who are Master’s students at ITMO’s Department of Production Management and Technology Transfer, have greatly contributed to application development for the RSCI START program. I should mention ITMO’s startup accelerator Future Technologies …
26.12.2017
Double Degree Programs in Iceland: Recent Participants Share
…arch To create a computer’s magnetic storage system, blocks of miniscule magnets are used. The information is encoded as one of the magnet’s key properties - the magnetization direction (for instance, upwards can mean “one” and downwards “zero”). The precision and storage reliability of a recording depends on one’s ability to control the encoding and maintain the …
25.12.2017
More than Beauty: Winners of Mister ITMO 2018 on What It Takes to Win
…l of them were realistic. I came to a final decision just a week before the contest. The performance was a comedy act involving me talking about my life. Judging by the audience’s reaction, it went well. Egor, you have the most experience performing on stage – after all, you’ve been a dancer for years. How did you develop your act? Egor: At first I planned a pe…
22.12.2017
Ilya Nikiforov, Founder Of TeachMePlease, On Blockchain in Education
…mic education, as students don’t clearly see how their new skills can be monetized. There are lots of examples when a person studied to be an economist and ended up working in construction and vice-versa. So, students don’t see the direct correlation between education and income. The value of education provided by schools and universities has decreased, as well, as i…
22.12.2017
All-Russian NTI Engineering Competition: Young Engineers’ Budding Talent
…e tasks of the competition are project-oriented and are aimed at training kids’ teamwork skills. That is why schoolchildren are given hands-on tasks; and starting from the second selection round, the participants form teams in which they begin to distribute tasks and responsibility. The NTI contest has three stages: first one is an individual selection of which was officially announced on October 17 by the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. A corresponding order was published on the website of the Russian government. The campus will include educational buildings, innovative production plants, and…
21.12.2017
Future Technologies Accelerator Unveils New Projects Lineup
…elerator accepted 25 projects - the highest number in the program’s history. According to Andrei Myasnikov, head of the accelerator, more and more startups that correspond to the selection criteria - having a ready prototype or technology or working with a technology developed at ITMO University - apply for the program each year. Startups working on technologies in t…
20.12.2017
ITMO Student on Building Robots, Dancing with Nobel Winners and Being on Chinese TV
… can’t control all of the degrees of freedom in the system, that you don’t have complete control over it, which is why you have to employ mathematical methods – search for cross-connections, etc. I am highly interested in this field, which is why I decided to try my hand at it. In the winter of 2015, I took the first prototype of my robot to the Moscow Institute of P…
20.12.2017
Tournament of Two Capitals: Promoting Robotics To The Young
…t of Two Capitals the robots have to not just identify and tackle the opponent, but also climb the hill, and “Races” imply that the robots possess the ability to react to opponents’ actions and obstacles, as well as write programs for computing turns and turnarounds. Alexei Chistyakov “The main point of participating in the tournament lies in not winning, but…
19.12.2017
Nanoscale Super-Resonator Extends Light Lifetime
…to get closer to this idea. Researchers identified the resonator parameters which make the light lifetime similar to one predicted for an infinite model. This goes on until the restrictions related to the final structure and absorption of the material come into force. Mikhail Rybin "Our resonator does not allow to capture the light permanently as it does no…
18.12.2017