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• HACKATHON 2025: Innovations for Cities of the Future

  …the skills to implement it. Hackathon 2025 was held in two formats: an ideas competition (for concepts and projects) and an IT-Hackathon. Over the course of two days, teams brainstormed their project concepts for cities of the future. For the IT-Hackathon, participants had 24 hours to develop an IT solution in any of the 10 possible categories including transportatio…

  06.02.2018

• Projects by ITMO’s Higher School of Lighting Design Win LIT Design Awards

  …aphic content is always different as it depends on the emotions the viewer experiences; what is more, it affects the other participants, as well. “Why do we call this installation “theater”? Though we don’t have a particular director or actors, we show that all of the participants act as actors, directors and stage designers. We make it a point to forego the…

  06.02.2018

• Andrey Sebrant On Machine Learning, Public Confidence and Relevant Education

  …hyped up apps as Prisma, Face App and others. In your lecture, you gave examples showing that these technologies can also be applied in such fields as the metals industry, for instance. What are the chances that machine learning will soon bring real results in the more traditional fields - industry, medicine, public service and the like? What is hindering this proces…

  06.02.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …tion stands to revolutionize the way we control the flow of electrons through a circuit: vanadium dioxide (VO2). A key characteristic of this compound is that it behaves as an insulator at room temperature but as a conductor at temperatures above 68°C. This behavior - also known as metal-insulator transition - is being studied in an amb…

  06.02.2018

• ITMO Winter School Offers New Hackathon Format

  …ng a fleet of driverless cars. The winning team proposed a service for assessing the emotional state of bank clients. According to the project’s authors, their idea was inspired by the real life situation when clients are persistently asked to assess the quality of service. On the other hand, the banks themselves often find it impossible to quickly and adequat…

  05.02.2018

• ITMO Students’ Project Cryptopus Helps Cryptocurrency Investors Reduce Risks

  …place and find what you’re looking for. This is how our platform functions: customers use it to find a trader they’re interested in and interact with that trader only,” – explains Alexandr Romanov, CEO of Cryptopus and student at ITMO University. The platform has two basic categories of users: investors, who join the market and gain profit from letting professio…

  05.02.2018

• Internships in Belgium: How to Apply and What to Expect

  …2 becomes a gas and leaves the system. As a result, the structural connections of the solid particles of the gel do not change and solid matter results, but with microcavities inside. “This substance can serve as a good insulator. It also has properties of sorbents, so it can potentially be used as a filter in a car’s exhaust pipe,…

  02.02.2018

• ITMO University Hosts Potanin Foundation Competition

  …nowledge, presentation skills, and leadership. Creative tasks are taken in groups, and each test takes a full business day. “Each year’s competition is different. For instance, this year it took less of a game-like format; it was more about discussion. The competition’s main topic was the future, namely “The city of 2050”. This is why all of the tasks will b…

  02.02.2018

• Webometrics-2018: Russian Universities Strengthen Positions

  …en into account, each with its specific weight coefficient. This year saw no changes in the ranking’s methodology. The Presence indicator represents the number of pages on the institution’s main web-domain that are indexed by Google, and has a weight of 5%. The Openness indicator (10%) reflects the institution’s number of citations in a…

  02.02.2018

• Meduza Publisher on Living in the Era of Bad News

  …t the 21st century, but the entire human civilization. But there was a time when this anticipation wasn’t fueled by thousands of outlets all over the globe, reporting at every instant whether it has begun or not. “All of this, of course, is amplified by the specifics of living in Russia; on average, we have more bad news to report on than in the countries we lik…

  01.02.2018