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• English at ITMO: From ABC to ESP

  …demic year, a new course was offered to lecturers of all subjects who are currently teaching or plan to teach in English, to learn more about how to use English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI). They think about the methods of teaching, syllabus design, assessment design and enhancing interaction in the classroom to contribute to their students’ understanding of thei…

  29.05.2018

• Dissolving Borders: teamLab’s Founder on Digital Art

  …ab in 2001, having worked as an engineer in the field of humanoid robots and AI before that. My interest in art motivated me to gather a team in order to create various visual installations in the field of digital art. Today we have five partner companies and there are 500 employees, including engineers, programmers, mathematicians, graphic designers, and creative sp…

  29.05.2018

• Speech Information Technology Programs at ITMO University

  … The students can get employed by the company as early as after their first year of a Master’s program. This way, they continue to study while already working for STC. For instance, this was how Dmitry Ubskiy, once an intern for the company and now part of the team working on promising new research, joined STC. “When Dmitry came to work with us, he was a tot…

  29.05.2018

• ITMO’s Futsal Team Wins National Championship

• Michio Kaku on Digital Future: Should We Fear Robots?

  …d to double every eighteen months; now, they double every year. All computation today is based on silicon, but in the future, we’ll have quantum computing and a Quantum Valley instead of the Silicon one. Surgeons today have internet in operating rooms in order to have access to MRI scans and medical records; soon enough there will be robot doctors able to use the int…

  28.05.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …s a calming effect, making us more mindful of what we order. This typically results in healthier choices, such as a salad. Louder environments increase stimulation and stress, inspiring diners to crave a greasy cheeseburger and fries instead.…

  28.05.2018

• ITMO University Strengthens Partnerships with Swiss Universities

  …As of now, ITMO University collaborates with two Swiss universities, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zürich) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, EPFL. Mauro Dell’Ambrogio, the State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation, and Roger Kull, the Consul General of Switzerland in St. Pete…

  25.05.2018

• Startup Funbo Offers Educational Courses in eSports

  …Funbo’s story begins with ITMO’s Future Technologies accelerator. The team applied to the program with an idea of organizing games in which amateurs would be able to play with accomplished cyberathletes (you can read more about it here). At the early stages of their project, the developers polled gamers to learn whether they really wanted a chance to play with profes…

  25.05.2018

• New Blockchain-Based System Will Control Quality of Medical and Chemical Products

  …uarantee that it will, in fact, be of quality? In other words, will the store-bought vaccine really protect my child from disease or will it be an inactive vaccine?” – he explains. In the same vein, there are no guarantees on the quality of the product when major companies purchase pharmaceutical and chemical materials in bulk. Of course, the parties’ respon…

  25.05.2018

• St. Petersburg International Economic Forum: Hi-Tech in IT, Medicine and Economics

  … there’ll be nearly a billion diabetics on the planet. We can’t personalize medicine for everyone right now, but we must start accounting for everyone’s individual traits. For instance, when the connection between obesity and diabetes was established, people started to encourage weight loss and that led to an epidemic of anorexia among young people. Eating disorders …

  24.05.2018