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• Game Development Education on the Rise in Russia

  …? What kind of knowledge do they provide? A.M.: There are still very few such programs in Russia. I doubt that they would teach programming students about game engines, for instance – those programs are set in stone and they probably don’t have the hours to spend on game technology classes. As for specific fields, like game design, these practically aren’t taught …

  14.07.2017

• How Researchers Use Social Media to Find Cool Spots and Fight Crime

  …Sentiment analysis Ksenia Mukhina and Vasiliy Boychuk, researchers from ITMO University’s eScience Research Institute, have found a variety of uses for software that analyses the emotions of groups of people based on their social media posts. The first large-scale test of this technology was presented at the booth of the youth camp “Sirius” in Sochi. Their intenti…

  13.07.2017

• ITMO Technopark Resident Receives 44 Million for HIV Cure Development

  …ities,” – comments Marina Popova – CEO of AGCT, MD, PhD, head of research laboratory of transplantology at the biotechnology division within Raisa Gorbacheva Memorial Research Institute of Children’s Oncology, Hematology and Transplantation and an Associate Professor of hematology at the First I. Pavlov State Medical University of St-Petersburg. Control system f…

  13.07.2017

• Blockchain: New Word in Banking

  …he currently-existing databases cannot provide such information to banks in real-time mode. Meanwhile, scams using forged documents are quite common, says Alexei Blagirev. For instance, a death certificate does not contain a person’s passport info, just their full name and birthplace – which is not sufficient for a unique client profile. Otkritie’s second pilot in…

  13.07.2017

• Forming Bonds: Visiting Scientists on Chemistry Research and Working Abroad

  …loss and low immunity, but with MOFs the plan is to improve the targeting in order not to affect the other organs and cells, and to go directly to the tumor cells,” – she explains. Sara is trying to combine the metal ions in the MOFs with ligands to produce a new material with a specific porous size that could help Rafaella’s research; in this regard, her resear…

  12.07.2017

• First Russian Li-Fi Network Launched at ITMO University

  …irrored by walls and other surfaces. This creates a kind of “illumination” of the optical signal carrying information - which is enough to maintain efficient data transmission inside a room. Once used in the future, Li-Fi connection will be sustained by the entire lighting system rather than just one bulb or lamp. This way, when moving from one light-source to anothe…

  12.07.2017

• ITMO Student Wins Phil.Tech Accelerator’s Marathon of Ideas

  …ng the Donor Day at ITMO University. After going through several iterations – starting with VK discussion threads and ending with Google Forms – we decided to develop a custom instrument that could help us automatize the organizational activities for donor events. The idea gained the approval of the St. Petersburg Donor Foundation and soon our system will see use not…

  11.07.2017

• ITMO Researchers Seek to Improve MOOC Effectiveness

  …y appears to drop. In addition, those who apply for online courses for the first time may be offered such training to prepare them for the online education experience,” – explains Ms. Lisitsyna. But how does one solve the issue of users failing to cope with the increasing difficulty of their course assignments? According to the researchers, the cause of this iss…

  11.07.2017

• Andrey Stankevich: Komsomolskaya Pravda’s Media-Person of the Year

  …ead of Programming Technology Department. At the ceremony, Prof. Parfenov told the audience about the Kotlin programming language developed by the St. Petersburg company JetBrains led by ITMO University alum Andrey Breslav. As he explained, in a year or two the St.Petersburg-made Kotlin will become the primary language for development of all mobile applications for A…

  10.07.2017

• MIT Experts on Russian Entrepreneurship

  …ill get results. It probably looks like a weakness from our point of view, but for them it is a kind of asset. Searching for innovations, too, sometimes requires one to “go against the system”. This ability can be useful in both small and big companies, as well as in life in general. One more thing that the students might have to work on is their level of English,…

  10.07.2017