TOMSK, May 18 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) within the "Software Engineering" direction opens a new English-language profile of the master's program "Big Data Technologies", the first students in this direction will begin to study since September 1, the press service of the university said on Thursday.
It is specified that Big Data - is a set of technologies which are designed to perform three operations: to process large data volumes in comparison with "standard" scenarios, to be able to work with constantly increasing large amounts of data and "to work with structured and poorly structured data parallely in different aspects".
"Due to the big topicality of this subject among our foreign partners, and this is, for example, European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), space industry, it was decided to open a new direction in our Master program with 12 state-funded places. <...> It's supposed the involvement of foreign colleagues in educational process", - the press service quotes the head of the Software Engineering Department Maxim Ivanov.
It is added that the first students in this direction will begin to study in September 2017. "It is planned that in the first month of the training several students will go to international schools-conferences on heterogeneous computing within the framework of the XXVI International Symposium on Nuclear Electronics & Computing NEC'2017 (Montenegro)", - is said in the report.According to the press service, during the training, students will also be able to take part in scientific projects solving real applied problems, for example, for the ATLAS experiment at CERN, one of the four main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. It is intended for researches in the field of elementary particle physics. It is one of two experiments, during which the Higgs boson was discovered.
Earlier it was reported that TPU in 2017 increased the number of state-funded places in the magistracy by almost a hundred - up to 1268. In 2016, there were 1187 - that is, 81 places less. For the first time, there appeared state-funded places for applicants for master's programs, which are taught in English.