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• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …World’s tiniest satellite headed for interstellar missions. Breakthrough Starshot, a $100 million program to launch robotic interstellar missions, has sent into orbit the smallest-ever satellites. The six prototypes, dubbed Sprites, weigh only 4 grams and contain solar panels, computers, sensors, and radios on a surface equal to that of…

  30.07.2017

• Starcon 2017: From Space Travel to 3D Printing

  …g a quadcopter, which can recognize colors and objects, using a joystick and a laptop. In the future, claim the developers, the drone will also be able to recognize three-dimensional structures. In yet another section of ITMO’s booth, guests can help repair a spaceship. To work as a mechanic, one needs to complete a VR-quest developed by first-year Master’s studen…

  28.07.2017

• ITMO’s Russian Language Summer School: Gaining New Experiences

  …he decided to take full advantage of her last free summer and enrolled in the program. “Just before I applied for the summer school,” – shared Boeun, – “I heard about the explosion in the St. Petersburg subway so I was really scared and my parents were worried too, but after thinking about it for some time I decided it would be a great chance to go to an exotic count…

  28.07.2017

• ITMO University Wins Grant on Developing New Decision Support System

  …Platform for decision support in the field of finance One of the project's results will be a cloud-based online platform that will be used as an instrument for creating decision support systems in the field of finance. The project's partner will be Bank Saint Petersburg PJSC. The platform will be publicly available, and will become t…

  28.07.2017

• “Night of Light” in Gatchina

  …of synthetic foam and primed with a special water-resistant coating. The “bubbles” are high-duty latex balloons coated in white matte paint. As the project team notes, the illusion of a giant dinnerware cup floating in the air with bubbles streaming down from it will remind the viewers of warm evenings, fairytales and dreams. The reflection from the lake’s surface is…

  27.07.2017

• New Genetic Algorithm by ITMO's Scientists Wins Prize at GECCO-2017

  …ology Department and staff of the Computer Technologies International Laboratory are long-time participants of the GECCO conference which is organized by ACM SIGEVO - a subdivision of the Association for Computing Machinery which focuses on genetic and evolutionary computations. The conference has been around since 1999; at this event, scientists and engineers from a…

  27.07.2017

• ITMO Goes 350 Positions Up in Webometrics Top Universities by Google Scholar Citations Subranking

  … to change; in the future the ranking's authors will probably interpret the data," comments Sofia Savinova. All in all, 93 Russian universities got into the latest version of Webometrics Top Universities by Google Scholar Citations ranking, including Novosibirsk State University, Saint Petersburg State University, Higher School of Economics,  Moscow State Un…

  26.07.2017

• ITMO Students Share Summer Internship Stories

  … she applied for the school in early spring and was accepted in late April. Each applicant is required to submit a motivational letter and a CV. This year, the topics of discussion and lectures at the school were: citizen science, dark energy and dark matter research, “clickbait” and embargo policies in journalism, networking and many others. “Those four days fe…

  26.07.2017

• ITMO and VNIIM Develop Joint Master's Program in Metrology

  …va: ITMO and VNIIMO have been partners for 20 years now. Our university’s students have attended practical lessons, workshops and lectures from VNIIM’s top experts on many occasions. We realized that we are ready to create an educational program to properly train future specialists; after all, both the scientific community and the industry are in need of certified me…

  25.07.2017

• Programming the Future: ITMO University’s 2016 Annual Report

  …lso, new projects are being conducted at the Institute of Translational Medicine. For example, ITMO and Federal Almazov North-West Research Center are now developing a new decision support system. In 2016, ITMO University won grants as part of Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Action project, including those on developing Smart Home technologies and improving MRI te…

  25.07.2017