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ITMO University Launches New Preacceleration Program
… that are implemented this year is a ranking system. Each team has its personal dashboard with things they succeed in: completed modules of the online course, attended events, solved practical tasks, and work carried out with trackers. Each activity is rewarded with points. Business achievements are to be evaluated, too: that includes first sales, funding received, c…
08.10.2020
Staff Spotlight: Daniel Nsengumuremyi, Rwanda
…ack to contribute to this area by implementing my project. There are sapropelic deposits in the lakes of Rwanda but no one is engaged in their extraction. By using them we can solve the problem of food product contamination during their storage, which is crucial for the country’s population. In spite of being mud, sapropel has high value and is used in agriculture…
08.10.2020
What is ITMO's Buddy System and How Does it Work?
…own Buddy System, but their buddies don’t do their job in earnest. That is, if a buddy wants to help you, then they will, but if they don’t want to help, then you will have to solve the problem on your own. We don't have that. We try to convey to our buddies that international students come to a new environment. You should put yourself in their shoes, how would y…
07.10.2020
ITMO.STARS 2020 Winners: Who Are They?
…he Software Engineering and not Robotics program. I want to get a fundamental education, with an in-depth study of mathematics and programming. But at the same time, I like to solve more applied problems and get results that can be seen and touched, such as a robot. “I want to help people – after all, this is what robotics is for” I like what I do, and I also t…
06.10.2020
Epidemiologist Vasily Vlassov on Medical Problems Exposed by the Pandemic
…doesn’t exist for us. In a way, we are trapped by limited abilities of our mind.” At the same time, the lecturer doesn’t think artificial intelligence will be able to solve this problem, either. However, doctors were able to reach certain results. For example, they stopped overusing medical ventilators, which don’t necessarily solv
06.10.2020
Media Research Group’s Aleksandr Farseev On Advertising Algorithms and Social Network Monopolies
…y deal with engineering cases based on research by scientists like us. Tasks that we work on are more about research. We are trying to see which technologies would allow us to solve the tasks I mentioned above. We do research in two fields: user profiling based on analysis of their content and content generation based on existing images, texts, and videos. Coul…
01.10.2020
ITMO University and Gazprom Neft Launch Energy Club
ITMO Team Wins VolgaCTF
…vast and covers lots of unconventional approaches in IT. The organizers always come up with something that hasn’t been used before, something that’s interesting to figure out, solve, and comprehend. What’s more, the field of IT is a rapidly developing one, new technologies are constantly emerging, and the complexity of tasks is growing with them. CTF is cool becau…
30.09.2020
ITMO Researchers Create Unique Wound-Healing Nanofibers Based on Hyaluronic Acid
…he amount of hyaluronic acid in such systems is substantially lower than the amount of modifying polymers, which makes us question their efficiency. Another method is using co-solvents, such as dimethylformamide. This is a rather toxic substance that is inapplicable for medical purposes," adds Petr Snetkov. The authors of the paper used dimethyl sulfoxide as a …
30.09.2020
100 Free Courses from Coursera: Seize the Opportunity
…d intermediate programmers Language: English + English subtitles An introductory course in Java programming. You will also acquire basic skills of computational problem solving that can be applied in many computing environments. The course also can be interesting to experienced programmers who want to understand the principles behind coding and dive deeper int…
29.09.2020