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• Nanotechnologies for Teenagers: How ITMO Promotes Physics

  …discipline. "In modern school education, this subject is mostly given as a set of formulas and axioms. Yet, just cramming physics is wrong. This science is great as it’s totally multi-sided: it explains numerous phenomena that may seem different, but have common nature. This is why for an engineer — someone who can "change" nature — physics gives full scope to t…

  28.03.2017

• Research on Fairy Circles in Africa Will Benefit Agriculture

• Staying Ahead of Time: ITMO’s New Program of Neurotechnologies

  …ave to do with neurotechnologies is still in its development stage. So, if we're talking about educational programs on neurotechnologies and programming, it's still something totally new for Russian education. New programs on neurotechnologies for IT specialists are regularly launched abroad; yet, in Russia there are only a few Master's programs that are more or less…

  21.03.2017

• Videogames and Violence: the Pro’s and Con’s of Gaming

• ITalented: the New Course for IT Students

  …w does it work on practice? Many St. Petersburg IT companies are already working using agile approaches — for instance, Scrum and others, notes Maksim Ivanov. They imply a totally different approach to project management, and even different competencies that developers have to possess. Yet, recent graduates have the necessary skills? "Last year, we organized…

  14.03.2017

• ITMO University in QS World Subject Rankings for the First Time

  …e university, the results of expert surveys play a significant role. For example, for Physics, the opinion of experts — i.e. external professionals — make up about 50% of the total ranking evaluation of the university, and in Сomputer Science, 70%! It should be taken into account also that the expert opinions are summed up over the last five years, which provides a c…

  10.03.2017

• Gamification: How to Learn the Periodic Table While Playing Battleship

• Maslenitsa FAQ: What is the Best Filling for Pancakes and Where Can You Experience All the Fun?

  …properly. The Sunday is called "Forgiveness Sunday"; on this day, it is common to ask your relatives and friends for forgiveness for whatever you did during the year; this is totally voluntary and does not imply going into details. The traditional answer is "forgive me as well". Surely, few follow all these traditions, yet everyone is eating pancakes at home, ca…

  21.02.2017

• ITMO’s Bioengineering Center Presents Research on New Bio-Compatible Implants

  …iruses or be rejected by the body. The use of metal implants call for a secondary intervention to remove them. Thus, polymer implants can become a great alternative: they are totally bio-compatible and gradually dissolve in the organism, being replaced by bone tissue in three to five years. The idea has already been around for some time: the first papers on the subje…

  21.02.2017

• Engineers Teach Self-Driving Cars Think

  …. Photo credit: pikabu.ru Following a decentralized control strategy, it is possible to eliminate some disadvantages. It makes vehicles self-regulated instead being totally controlled by the unit. Using specific algorithms, self-driving cars "agree" on how they pass the intersection, taking into account how to do that within the shortest possible time and y…

  17.02.2017