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ITMO University Holds Closing Ceremony of 9th Congress of Young Scientists in Minecraft
…chnologies and Programming Faculty. The developer team includes Alexander Blashenkov, Sergey Papikyan, Leonid Vorontsov, Victor Kukushkin, Konstantin Chukharev and others. In total, more than one hundred people explored the virtual building, walking along its corridors and communicating in the game's chat during construction. "We started making a virtual copy of…
02.05.2020
Is Fully Hack-Proof Code Possible?
…o know nothing about the key, but also for the right, reliable encryption algorithm to be applied using the resulting key. Read also: How Quantum Systems Provide Total Security If quantum key distribution is so close to ideal, why doesn’t my smartphone’s messenger use it? It’s unwieldy and expensive, simple as that. QKD systems of cours…
30.04.2020
“I Did It Because I Could”: ITMO Alumnus Donates 800 Respirators to St. Petersburg Hospital, Buys Laptops for School Students
… business partner, Anton Belyaev, had the same experience. Did you ever regret changing your mind about Moscow? Not once in the past 20 years. I ended up studying for a total of almost 10 years: first, as a Bachelor’s student at the Computer Technologies Department, then for Master’s and PhD degrees at the Higher Mathematics Department, where I was invited by m…
22.04.2020
G’day Mate! Your Guide to Speaking Australian
…rds. It’s usually only in oral speech. No, we haven’t completely broken the English language – yet. So we love to have avo (avocado) on toast for brekky (breakfast) and we’re totally devo (devastated) if we forget our sunnies (sunglasses) when we go to the beach in the arvo (afternoon), or when we forget our brolly (umbrella) out in the rain. It should be no surprise…
21.04.2020
Speak Like a Russian: Corona-Inspired
… was in high school, there was one thing that helped me get through studying particularly boring parts of the English grammar, and that was the unique expressions that seemed totally out of place to me. After I started writing these articles, I began noticing the same things in Russian. For one, I’ve already mentioned a couple of oddities in our colors article - and …
20.04.2020
ITMO.DigitalCareerWeek’20 Goes Online
…, but those turned out to be much harder to organize online, which led many companies to cancel our previously made agreements,” says Anna. Nevertheless, 14 companies in total took part in the event, including Danone, PepsiCo, Baltika Breweries, KraftHeinz and Digital Design. According to the organizers, the most popular and successful webinar was on creating a …
20.04.2020
Zooniverse: Help Study Polar Animals While Staying at Home
…ot really interested in seals and penguins, you can find a different research to your liking. “We currently have about 100 live projects, and we’ve launched over 250 in total since we began,” says Dr. Miller. “Each project involves a different research team (with a few exceptions). We have worked with researchers from many countries on all continents, including…
17.04.2020
Citizen Science: How to Contribute to Research From the Comfort of Your Home
…earch papers to determine whether the studies in question were based on randomized control trials or quasi-experiments. Games One of the past decade’s top trends is total gamification. Science, too, wasn’t left out – now, you can help develop quantum computers, study neurons, or solve chaos theory by simply playing games. That was the thinking behind Sci…
15.04.2020
ITMO University and Yandex Launch New Master’s Program in Data Analytics
…l of Data Analysis, and in partnership with other universities,” comments Evgenia Kulikova, head of Academic Programs Service at Yandex. The program’s structure A total of 21 students will be able to enroll as part of the program’s first intake: 16 will be tuition-free and 5 will study on a fee-paying basis. The curriculum is intended for those with a Bac…
14.04.2020
Life After MVP: How Startups Can Avoid the Post-Acceleration “Crash and Burn”
…lobal concept that is viewed outside of geographical borders and reviews the overall state of affairs on the planet and a market’s development based on global trends. TAM (Total Addressable Market) – how many customers and which share of the target market are interested in products and services of the same category as yours. Presents targets for two-to-three years…
10.04.2020