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Russia’s «First Non-Classical» Welcomes: an Open Day at ITMO’s School of Internet Technologies and Programming
…School of Translational Information Technologies. Information Technologies change the world, and there's nothing one can do with it — notes Daria Kozlova, Head of ITMO’s Institute of International Development and Partnership. Old professions become things of the past, and new inventions come into our lives. IT-specialists are at the center of these changes. «…
03.10.2016
Wiki-Conference 2016: The Problem of Rights and Freedom
…sity. «We are now at the „Dark Ages“. In Middle Ages that was the time when people lost access to cultural values and could access them only in certain places, churches, for instance. Now it is the same. The development of new technologies led to communications being conducted in real time — but no one can really work this way. We can bring up a problem online — bu…
03.10.2016
From Fashion to the Everyday Life: What is a «Smart Chameleon Jacket»?
…Today everybody knows about exosceletons for medical and military purposes while electronic textiles remain almost unknown. This type of clothes contains high-tech elements — from diodes to computers. For example, the closing with installed sensors and microchips can detect blood pressure, pulse, and temperature of the owner and then s…
30.09.2016
Russia Celebrates Internet Day
…the population, compared to 40% in developing countries, and 15% in underdeveloped countries. The internet came to Russia in the early 90s. On the 28th of August, 1990, the Institute of Atomic Energy and Ministry of the Motor Industry connected to the global network. Less than a month later, on September 19th, 1990, the domain .su (as inS…
30.09.2016
A Women’s Job: ITMO’s PhD Student on Her Award-Winning Project
… for noise and compensate the possible distortions. «The properties of the optical components of the system change with the external conditions, pressure or temperature, for instance, and that's essential for work of these precision devices. Let's say, heat affects the sensor's scale factor. We empirically measure these regularities, input them into a computer mode…
30.09.2016
New ITMO Accelerator Creating Businesses that Benefit Society
…vironmental issues and combating vandalism. For example, Flavios Abellan, a student of the University of California in Los Angeles, invented a spray for «live» graffiti, which instead of having paint in it, has a mixture of glue and seeds which germinate on the walls. Chinese social entrepreneurs, in turn, try to solve social problems through technology. At the sa…
29.09.2016
Affairs of the Heart: How to Fight Cardio Diseases by Medicine and IT
… «When analyzing at the cellular level we deal with genes and proteins — it results in such amounts of data that we cannot process it without the assistance of experts. ITMO’s specialists use various informatics methods- though they have no relation to living objects. That is why the interdisciplinary approach we use is very fruitful. It gives the specialists in bioi…
29.09.2016
ITMO University is in the Top-100 for Computer Science According to THE
…he overall THE World University Rankings were announced September. The three leaders amongst Russian universities were Lomonosov Moscow State University, ranked at 188, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (301−350), and ITMO University which was included in the rankings for the first time and straight into the 351−400 range.…
28.09.2016
Student Entrepreneurship — Foreign Experts Share their Experience
…ng there, our students can broaden their outlook and get the necessary experience. I am really impressed by ITMO's innovative infrastructure, but it seems that you try instilling innovative thinking only during Master's and Research programs. We do that earlier, during the fourth year's second semester. I strongly believe that the sooner you do it, the better…
28.09.2016
Grants of 2016: ITMO University will get 90 million rubles funding for developing new hybrid materials for a new generation of optoelectronics
… to Sergei Makarov, there is a tendency to nanophotonics: researching new materials for creating metamaterials that have unique properties — ones you won't find in nature. For instance, gold nanoparticles were used as the basis for many materials. Yet, now they use nitrides of metals in USA and silicon instead of gold in Australia. The …
28.09.2016