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• ITMO’s Team Wins Europe’s Largest Robotics Contest Robotex 2017

  …7 seconds, leaving behind Tallinn University’s drone which completed it in 51 seconds. ITMO's team drone at Robotex-2017 Robotex-2017 was the first competition for the new team which took place only a few months after the students’ admission to ITMO - and the guys won it. The students are currently considering other competitions involving drones, where they c…

  06.12.2017

• New technology allows safe MRI-diagnostics for people with implants

  …tal research to a product that can improve people's lives," comments Alexei Slobozhanyuk, research associate at ITMO. - Our team has already developed several devices based on new artificial materials capable of drastically improving MRI technology and we continue this research work now. In 2 to 3 years, a series of such devices can improve the efficiency of a signif…

  05.12.2017

• Treating a Common Cold the Russian Way

  … most cultures, garlic is a healthy natural go-to antiseptic. Russians also like to eat it raw, mix it with hot water and inhale it. Some Russian households have taken it to a new level. Among the favorites are: Chopping up garlic and placing it around your house particularly over your heater so it heats up and supposedly circulates more; Sticking a small clo…

  05.12.2017

• ITMO's Business Incubator Transforms, Will Focus on Acceleration

  …innovative infrastructure and the industrial sector," - continues Vladimir Vasilyev. The acceleration program Future Technologies (FT) will remain the main project of the new incubator. More than 50 projects in the fields of IT, medicine, food technology, biology, chemistry, innovative production, etc. have been developed within FT since its launch in 2015. Arou…

  05.12.2017

• Fifth Year of Technology Brokering School Begins at ITMO University

  …elp bridge the gap between business and those who develop innovations. Though the School’s general purpose is to teach the fundamentals of technology brokering, each of its new sessions is different from the previous ones. This year, the participants were selected on a competitive basis and had to pay for their education, which allowed to attract the most incentiv…

  05.12.2017

• ITMO Team Passes ACM ICPC Regionals, Will Compete for World Cup in Beijing

  … completed 7 or more tasks received the grade-one diplomas. Roman Elizarov “What makes this year’s regional contest different from the previous ones is that a lot of new teams have come here this time; many of them have never met the others at all. It used to be that the new teams would fall behind the more experienced veteran…

  04.12.2017

• Nikolai Filchenko: “One Shouldn’t Aim To Become A Programmer Just Because It's In"

  …tanding technologies are relevant, but those are usually given to the more experienced candidates. As for novice programmers, employers expect them to be able to quickly grasp new things; as for the more serious projects, employers are wary of novices, because no one can really tell what will happen to them in some six months. Credit: hr-portal.ru If a

  04.12.2017

• “People Need You!” Project Wins Presidential Grant

  … us with little knowledge and skills in the field of social entrepreneurship, and by the end of the program their level of competencies improves greatly, and they also acquire new ones. At both the beginning and the end of the program, we conduct testing in an unconventional format. Studying the dynamics of the teams’ and individual participants’ growth is very impor…

  04.12.2017

• 5 Science News Now

  …s miniaturised a component that is essential for the scale-up of quantum computing and coined a microwave circulator. The work constitutes the first practical application of a new phase of matter, first discovered in 2006, the so-called topological insulators. Beyond the familiar phases of matter - solid, liquid, or gas - topological insulators are materials that ope…

  04.12.2017

• Things to Do in St. Petersburg this Weekend: December 2-3

  …Asian Winter Fest Although the Asian New Year traditionally takes place after the European one, the festival’s organizers decided to start the celebration early. So, as soon as this weekend, you’ll get a perfect chance to get to know the many traditions of this grand event, and dive into the festive atmosphere of one of the world’s biggest holidays! The Asian W…

  01.12.2017