Experience from introducing special courses on information technology and information protection

This paper looks into the possibility of teaching university students special courses on a range of subjects that would reflect the reality of today’s information society. We present a list and a brief content of these disciplines concerning information technology and information protection. A focus is made on a positive outcome, which is likely to be achieved in teaching the Contemporary Innovation Technology courses in Russian universities. This course involves familiarizing students with the National Software Platform, semantic technologies, cloud computing, massively parallel computer platforms and contemporary mobile computer platforms.     

Intellectual systems models of scheduling medicinal processes

A method of formalization and optimization of schedules for medical process is considered. Examples of optimization of medical schedules of ophthalmic hardware aid are given. We propose artificial intelligence methods to improve the quality of patient care.     

Preliminary analysis to build an integrative conceptual network for biological education at university level

Existing university education in the natural sciences comes up against many difficulties. Therefore, it is of importance to look for the reasons for such difficulties as felt by teachers and students, in order to develop a basis for a new approach to education. As an important step in this direction, a working group of teachers and didactics specialists at the University Pierre et Marie Curie has attempted to analyse the content of biological knowledge in order to develop an integrative conceptual network for biological education at university level. The results of this analysis are outlined here.