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• Unified State Exam Scores: ITMO in Top-10

• Keeping Things Simple: ITMO Freshman Makes Reading English Easier

  …g summer school organized by the University of Central Florida. I had a choice — either to spend time studying Java or make games on the Unity engine. I chose Java: I already knew I'll have to deal with it during my second year at ITMO University. Every second day, we studied theory, on the other days we put it into practice, and after these two weeks we had to prese…

  08.09.2016

• METANANO-2016: Interview with Scientists

  …ack of investors, but also the ill-considered governmental system that implies that scientists have to spend all of their budget in a year. As a result, I can't save funds for new equipment. Another problem is constant changes in science as a system: today we're told one thing, tomorrow - another. There is no stability in this field, lots of demands from the industry…

  08.09.2016

• Experiencing VR: A List of Apps You Might Like

  … main requirement for them is maximum realism and sense of immersion - the team itself calls it “VR experience” and nothing else). They are all divided by categories - sports, news, music, etc. NYT VR (iOS, Android) The New York Times brings journalism to a different level: they've decided to expand the reporter's standard equipme…

  08.09.2016

• FRUCT Conference Included in the Scimago Journal Index

  …we didn’t participate in the organization of FRUCT conference from the beginning, it's safe to say that when collaboration began with ITMO University, the conference reached a new level of quality, and indexing papers in Scimago is yet another contribution to the development of our University’s brand", – says Dmitry Muromtsev. Another criterion for evaluatin…

  07.09.2016

• METANANO-2016: Danish Scientist on Reasons for Investing in Science

  …In what fields of science presented at the conference will the future top projects be? And will there be such projects at all? Not so long ago, the EC announced a new flagship project - they plan to spend a billion dollars on it. This will be research in quantum optics. Five years ago, lots of funding was spent on graphene research, as well. The main task for tod…

  07.09.2016

• E-participation: UN Expert on E-Government and Civic Consciousness

  …re? Or what to build on a free site - a casino or a park? The answer to the first question will most probably be unanimous; the second can lead to a discussion: a casino means new jobs, whereas there might be enough parks in the city. Still, there are few services that can be used to express public opinion, and they are not widely known. For instance, there are we…

  07.09.2016

• ITMO University Moving Up in the Rankings

  …nning programming championships like ACM-ICPC, proving that participating in such high profile international events enhances their reputation. In fact, there was more stirring news in the media, including talk about how the International Council on Competitiveness Enhancement of Leading Russian Universities rated ITMO University highly in Project 5-100. All these thi…

  07.09.2016

• Unreal Fest: Latest VR and AR technologies on the Russian Market

  … develop products for the educational field: according to him, it has a lot to offer from the business point of view. Thus, a music book about dinosaurs inspired the idea of a new product. The businessmen decided to improve it with modern technology: after one caught the dinosaur’s picture with a phone camera, a realistic dinosaur showed up on the screen, moving arou…

  06.09.2016

• Evolution Instead of a Revolution: How Media has Changed with the Coming of New Technologies

  …What was media yesterday, what is it now and what will become of it? The “media of yesterday” is believed to be newspapers, magazines, radio, cinema and television. Now I still continue to read newspapers, listen to the radio, go to the movies and watch TV. And I suppose I won't stop doing that tomorrow. So, the question is: where is th…

  06.09.2016