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• ICO-Hypethon: Will Bitcoin Take Over The World?

  …09." On the cost of bitcoin "In 2011, the prices on bitcoin started to grow, as many expected that Wikileaks will start accepting donations in cryptocurrency. Same year, New York senator Chuck Schumer described bitcoin as a money laundering technology in a TV appearance. At that time, bitcoin went up to 30 dollars, followed by the first crash, and it went down …

  21.08.2017

• ITMO Students Take Part In Experimental Interaction Design Summer School

  …m different countries came for the international Experimental Interaction Design course, where they had the opportunity to design digital environments that would provide for a new level of digital literacy and help humanity solve another problem - this time, from the field of healthcare. During the first week, the students worked in teams to analyze the problems t…

  18.08.2017

• Admission Campaign 2017: The Results

  …applicants entered Master's programs at ITMO University via a portfolio contest. The recently introduced opportunity to take the exams off-site was popular, as well: 32 of the new Master's students used it to enter the University. The most popular Master's program track in 2017 was Management: the competition for it was 8.26 people per position; the second most po…

  18.08.2017

• Scientists Learn To Predict Users' Preferences Based On Data From Social Networks

  …ces help predict their users' behavior? A group of scientists from ITMO University and the National University of Singapore decided to find out. The researchers developed a new recommendation system that provides for a more effective and person-focused approach to recommending sights based on data from social networks. The system creates several complex models tha…

  18.08.2017

• Dave Vasquez: We Need To Start Teaching Entrepreneurship Back In School

  …always had this advantage: my father really liked everything that had to do with the Soviet Union. He even was part of the communist movement in Colombia for some time, so he knew a lot about first USSR, then Russia; actually, he still follows Russian news. So, he was never against me going here. On the other hand, I couldn't go to the …

  17.08.2017

• Giant Paper Plane Dives in at Red Bull Flugtag

• IEEE Award Winner Slobozhanyuk: “There Are No Stupid Questions in Science”

  …y project because it shows how we can, in theory, create compact optical waveguides using topological photonics without loss or signal reflection. Few could do this; few even knew about this. Meanwhile, we have already done experiments and showed how two-dimensional topological insulators can work when they protect electromagnetic waves instead of electrons (you can …

  16.08.2017

• ITMO & Australian Scientists Contribute to Latest Nanophotonics Review

  …s. The goal of the issue is to publish a series of high-quality articles that will provide a review of the current progress of modern photonics, as well as discuss the field’s new trends. One will have the opportunity to see the online version of the issue right after the actual celebration of the magazine's anniversary in 2017," notes Yuri Kivshar, the issue's curat…

  16.08.2017

• Relocation Tips: What You Need to Know About ITMO Dorms

• Ecological Raids: International Ecocamp at Yagodnoe

  …ides working on the Ecohouse, the Ecological Raids participants made their own cosmetics using only natural ingredients. In addition, they implemented technology for producing new paper from waste paper at home, which they learned about during one of the workshops; they also learned how to make solar batteries, microgenerators and other devices to obtain energy from …

  15.08.2017