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Digital Humanities: Education in 21st Century
…ls and combining the methodologies of computer sciences with those of traditional soft sciences like history, linguistics, literature and arts. This sort of synthesis opens up new ways to collect and visualize data, search for information, analyze it and apply mathematical statistics. The concept of digital humanities has gained traction over recent years. In that…
21.02.2018
Academic Mobility: ITMO Student on Studying in Poland
… thesis work at subdivisions of such companies as Nokia, Volvo, Ryanair and other. The university bills itself as a rapidly developing institution. Over the last years, the new Geocentrum educational and research complex has been added to the university’s campus, as well as Technopolis - two modern buildings of the Center of IT and Communication Technologies and t…
20.02.2018
ITMO Graduate’s Startup Uses Neural Networks to Make Online Ads Useful
…e to get rid of commercials entirely. But commercials that don’t suit your interests are even worse. If the cute metal “dogs” were interrupted by, say, a commercial for a cool new drone model, you might have even been interested. “Today’s native advertising is barely analyzed for relevance to content it’s attached to. They offer you diapers when you’re looking f…
20.02.2018
Apps We Love Here at ITMO
…! (Google Play/App Store) Peter Sloot, Professor of Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, member of ITMO International Council ScienceDaily - a science news app that provides me with a daily dose of scientific inspiration. (Google Play) 9Gag - my go-to for a smile. (Google Play/App Store) Night Sky - a personal planetarium that identif…
20.02.2018
"Digital Jungle": How To Get an Internship at Your Dream Company, Get a Job at Google and Survive in the IT World
…come true, shared Ruslan. But don’t plunge headlong into work during the internship, says Ruslan. Don’t dedicate all your free time to the project. Don’t forget to meet new people, communicate with colleagues and attend various Google courses where they teach how to make a good career choice. After all, these connections can help you start your own project in …
19.02.2018
ITMO Professor Emeritus Yuri Kivshar Among Winners of Web of Science Awards 2017
…the fourth time these awards are presented, and our methodology has proven itself: the results of Web of Science Awards can be referred to as dynamic. Each time, we “discover” new names in Russian science, as our method prevents the possibility of seeing the same “elders” of science in each year’s list just because they’d gotten a high H-index some decades ago. We on…
19.02.2018
Different Challenges, Different Teachers: Tatiana Chernigovskaya on Challenges of Digital Age
…ort on the current state of global affairs; this report was the topic of discussion at the recent Nikitsky Club session. The report’s authors speak about anthropocene - the new geological time period. In a sense, this is the continuation of Vladimir Vernadsky’s noosphere concept, but today we’re dealing with a much more severe situation, as the humanity’s effect o…
19.02.2018
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SCAMT Lab's Anna Fakhardo Talks Nanobots and Cancer Research
…earch at the Institute of Toxicology at the Federal Medical-Biological Agency. I was going to stick to biology after getting my Master’s, but I also felt like trying something new. It was clear that I wasn’t likely to find work somewhere like BIOCAD without any work experience. I happened upon a job description online that called for a cellular biochemistry specialis…
16.02.2018
App by ITMO Students will Filter Media Events and Predict their Popularity
…had to offer a solution to a problem that had to do with a vast flow of incoming content that editors had to process manually. As result, ITMO’s team developed an automated news filtering app for the entire incoming content. The project makes use of machine technologies to arrange media events by categories and topics. The application can identify the general atmo…
16.02.2018