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• Russia’s «First Non-Classical» Welcomes: an Open Day at ITMO’s School of Internet Technologies and Programming

  …n Technologies change the world, and there's nothing one can do with it — notes Daria Kozlova, Head of ITMO’s Institute of International Development and Partnership. Old professions become things of the past, and new inventions come into our lives. IT-specialists are at the center of these changes. «There are lots of areas where IT and cyber physical systems will r…

  03.10.2016

• Wiki-Conference 2016: The Problem of Rights and Freedom

  …Not only there's a lot more information now, the development of communication technologies calls for making immediate decisions. It may seem that constant Internet access and the development of social networks should help people make conscious decisions, — still, it's the way round, in fact — believes Ivan Zasurski, head of the Departme…

  03.10.2016

• From Fashion to the Everyday Life: What is a «Smart Chameleon Jacket»?

  … was a senior student at the Faculty of Laser and Light Engineering. According to the student, it was very difficult to find some research articles devoted to optical and diffusion properties of textiles. He had to do experiments with various materials so as to choose the most appropriate one for even light distribution. Finally, he managed to rectify the main disadv…

  30.09.2016

• A Women’s Job: ITMO’s PhD Student on Her Award-Winning Project

  …«The properties of the optical components of the system change with the external conditions, pressure or temperature, for instance, and that's essential for work of these precision devices. Let's say, heat affects the sensor's scale factor. We empirically measure these regularities, input them into a computer model and then decide on how to compensate them using algo…

  30.09.2016

• New ITMO Accelerator Creating Businesses that Benefit Society

  …social entrepreneurship» is yet to be legislated in Russia. A bill was submitted to the state Duma three years ago, then the Ministry of Economic Development proposed a new version, but work on it was suspended after public hearings. In different countries, social entrepreneurship looks different, explained Yuri Kuporosov, a representative of the Social and En…

  29.09.2016

• Affairs of the Heart: How to Fight Cardio Diseases by Medicine and IT

  … engineer of the Computer Technology Department. According to Ms. Kostareva, medical experts can work with most data by themselves, however only with the assistance 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 Ann…

  29.09.2016

• Student Entrepreneurship — Foreign Experts Share their Experience

  …o use these skills in all of their other courses. My point is that all universities — Finnish, Danish, Russian — all face one similar problem: we train people in professions that might still not exist. Several years ago, a research was published in Netherlands that showed that the top-10 professions of 2010 didn't exist in 2002 …

  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

  …metamaterial technologies», — added Mr. Belov. We'd like to also note that ITMO University won another grant — on creating the «Hybrid Light States in Substances in Low-Dimensional Quantum Materials with Preset Properties». The laboratory’s co-head will be Senior Research Associate of the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Ivan Shelykh. During the last …

  28.09.2016

• The Second International Spatial Development Forum in St. Petersburg

  … ITMO University. Vladimir Vasilyev The deputy minister noted that he expects the forum's participants to work together actively, so that they can arrive at some decisions and outline the future ways of cityscape development. Vladimir Vasilyev, ITMO's Rector, underlined that the choice of the forum's topic — «Extreme Urbanism» — is most meaningful. «Extreme…

  26.09.2016

• Open University: Education For All

  … produce more food, enhance safety, find new ways to treat previously incurable diseases and predict the behavior of people and different processes. At this Open University session, Sergei Kovalchuk, senior research associate at the eScience Research Institute and Associate Professor in the High-Performance Computing Department at ITMO University spoke about how pred…

  26.09.2016