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12:56, October 9, 2013

Students at Ural Federal University developed an application for their classmates

Group of Ural Federal University’s students from the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences and the Institute of Civil Engineering launched the mobile application “UrFU student” developed for Android devices.

The new application having quite a few analogues in Russian universities will allow the students of Ural Federal to monitor the changes in their class schedules and upload their works.  In the short run the developers are going to expand the functions of the application.

Now Pavel Votyakov, Pavel Dik and Nikita Zherebtsov are looking forward to get the feedback from the users. They’ve already started working on developing the application for iOS and Windows Phone systems.

It’s to be recalled that 2013-2014 was announced the Year of IT at Ural Federal University. The key event of the year will be the oncoming ACM ICPC World Finals held at UrFU. The developers have all chances to get the substantial support from the university and the leading IT companies - IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco Systems, «SKB Kontur” and many others.

The students have already had a very successful experience of applications development. Programme “UrFU Prospective student” for Android devices has become the leader in Google Play and was evaluated for 5.0 by the users.

Ural Federal University has lately paid much attention to the development of IT in the region. According to the rector, Prof Victor Koksharov, IT is a key area for the university.