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Celebrating ITMO. STORE’s First Birthday
Exactly one year ago, on October 10th, ITMO. STORE, a store full of ITMO branded products, opened up. It sold some shirts and stationery with the university’s logo. Since then, at least 85 unique pieces made with love have shown up on its website and showroom: shirts, cups, hoodies, soft toys, stickers, chocolate and many others. Alexander Golovaty, the director of ITMO store and Konstantin Kozlov, the store manager talked about their plans for the store’s future.
10.10.2016
Training the Next Generation of Information Security Specialists
Viruses, worms, phishing attacks, trojan horses, hackers, identity theft, even wiki-leaks, all things we associate with information security. Yet it’s so much more than that. Professionals in this field are required in almost every organization and here at ITMO University, we are strengthening the educational programs that offer information security so they are closer to what businesses want, and thus prepare students to go straight from the classroom to the workforce.
07.10.2016
Five Things We Loved Last Week
03.10.2016
ITMO University is in the Top-100 for Computer Science According to THE
The latest Times Higher Education subject rankings were announced for Computer Science. ITMO University has never been represented in these rankings before and this year took 56th place, just one of two Russian Universities in the top-100 (along with Lomonosov Moscow State University).
28.09.2016
Young Engineers from Russia Leave to Conquer the World Robot Olympiad
Robots can behave like humans and even more — they are now able to solve difficult tasks like picking up waste in inaccessible places. The slogan for the World Robot Olympiad of 2016 is «Rap the scrap!», as its participants are going to present robots for sorting, processing and disposing of waste.
27.09.2016
Lena Brandt: «Competition Promotes Science Communication»
European countries invest in such fundamental and expensive projects as the European Organization for Nuclear Research and Large Hadron Collider. However that would be impossible without explaining the necessity of such scientific projects. The question is what Russians know about the state of their domestic science?
27.09.2016
Open University: Education For All
ITMO University actively participates in the «Open University» project, a chance for all people to learn from the best professors, scientists, and researchers in St. Petersburg and Europe. Participation is completely free; the most recent, 8th session was on how technology changed people, social values and history; it was held last Saturday, 24 September, at the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater.
26.09.2016
Five Things We Loved Last Week
25.09.2016
«Quantum Communications» Has Made a Deal with an Outside Investor
ITMO University sold a share of its' company «Quantum Communications» to NEOTECH company. The parties signed the agreement at the St. Petersburg International Innovative Forum. This bargain is a good example of how universities can reach the innovative market. Dealing with companies is not widespread among Russia’s universities but ITMO’s one may become a driver for a further partnership in this field.
23.09.2016
Distance Medicine Technologies: ITMO’s Collaborations With Federal Almazov North-West Research Center
This year, the first Master's students joined ITMO's Computational Biomedicine program. Specialists from Federal Almazov North-West Research Center gave them a tour so these IT students could learn more about the technologies used in modern medicine and become the ones who will create new ones for the physician's needs in the future.
22.09.2016