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• 5 Things We Loved This Week

• Evgeny Pidko: Chemistry is a Catalyst for Success

  …principle that provides with the tools to regulate chemical reactions.  By adding a small amount of a particular substance named catalyst, we can enable and accelerate a conversion of other chemicals towards some desirable products. The basics of this principle resemble the life of highlanders. Imagine that chemical substances live in valleys surrounded by mountains.…

  18.08.2016

• Summer School in Tallinn: Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction

  … The course was called “Research methods in HCI” and was more for PhD students and researchers rather than Master’s and Bachelor’s students. The lectures and hands-on sessions were dedicated not to the gadgets and interfaces, but to research methods used for their development: ethnographic methods of human-machine interaction research, methods for systematizing…

  18.08.2016

• Russian Coders: To Leave or not to Leave

  …pportunity to work remotely, which seems was preferable to only 7%. Thus it is very important for 92% of IT students that the company is ready to assist them in their professional development. Most coders prefer casual style rather than office clothes. Only 4% like classic suits. Speaking of workplace accommodations, a good many programmers dream about a gym an…

  18.08.2016

• The Ins and Outs of the Postgraduate Admissions Process at ITMO

  …ram differs to earlier levels of education in that, the bachelors degree offers a general foundation and specialized practical training sufficient for performing certain professional tasks, the Masters is aimed at specific knowledge and skills and conducting independent research work, which gears you up for admission into postgraduate s…

  18.08.2016

• Light-Emitting Glass Will Enhance Solar Panel Efficiency

  …rmance. Now the efficiency of solar cells is as low as around 20%, but it can be greatly enhanced with the use of luminescent protective glass that has higher light conversion. “We have managed to increase the efficiency of ultraviolet conversion in the glass up to 30%, which is comparable with the front-end research in this field.…

  17.08.2016

• «Yagodnoe» International Camp: Results and Achievements

• Creativity and Traditions of Resistance: Financial Times on the Development of Innovations in Russia

  …s and companies and is encouraging its students to launch their own businesses”, - says John Thornhill, the editor for the Innovation section.  “We want to make the profession of entrepreneur more popular,” – says one academic. “People who are 30 or 40 still look at entrepreneurs as something suspicious”. Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messenger and…

  17.08.2016

• Faster, Higher, Smarter: 5 Main Technological Novelties of 2016 Olympics

  …nternational corporation - Summer Olympics' technological partner, the IT infrastructure of the event is sufficient for 4.8 billion viewers who watch the translation via television and the Internet. The data centers provide 22,000 different media with data from the competitions, and all the systems of personnel management and processing of personal data are cloud-hos…

  16.08.2016

• ITMO University Participates in the Erasmus+ Program

  …save energy (Smart  Grid), improve health care systems and solve numerous other problems a lot faster and more effectively than a human. There will also be a need for professionals who maintain the security of these systems, their stability and develop software. Though there already are many projects in this field, few universities have programs or even courses fo…

  15.08.2016