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How ITMO Researchers Are Using Speech Analysis to Diagnose Dementia and Parkinson's
…ns based on this data. As a result, it correlates the units used by the person with the emotion that they experience during the speech. After training, the system is tested on new recordings. In acoustic analysis, the model used an activation scale from 0 to 10 as an output. The researchers’ approach to the analysis of linguistic modality was to use tonal dict…
13.10.2020
Compote: A Russian Fruity Drink You Have To Try
How Coworking Spaces Help Remote Workers Stay on Track and Find New Friends and Colleagues
…d face-to-face communication with colleagues, the need to combine work and household chores, and deal with many distractions – all this has become a serious challenge for many newly remote workers. WeWork, an international flexible workplace network, and Hamilton Place Strategies, a consulting agency, conducted a joint study to find out that having experienced rem…
12.10.2020
Summing up ITMO Preaccelerator's First Workshop
… social component will be able to advance on the international market. Even now, it is in high demand, it pays off well, and already existing businesses are trying to adapt to new standards and realities. So now, before starting a business you need to think over its value in society. Brainstorming The second part of the event was practice-oriented: the stud…
12.10.2020
Your Guide to Gaming in Fall-Winter of 2020
…99 (I know!) and this particular installment is brought to us by Toys for Bob (of the Skylanders series). Reviews over the past week praise the game for well-balanced levels, new ideas, and yet that truly old-school vibe that, let’s face it, we are actually all here for. There’s, perhaps, no better way to survive the ever-changing reality of 2020 with a renovated bu…
09.10.2020
Battleships and Electrons: ITMO Student Develops a VR Game for Chemistry Students
…ies to explain them. Every subject has such tough spots and it has nothing to do with the level of the lecturer's expertise. That's why it's especially crucial to come up with new ways of presenting such materials. As noted by Mikhail Kurushkin, dean of the Faculty of Biotechnologies and leading research associate of the ChemBio Cluster, understanding the electron…
09.10.2020
ITMO University Launches New Preacceleration Program
…ology. For the most part, however, the projects are related to various services, apps, and online schools,” says Alexey Solomatin, the head of the Accelerator. What’s new One of the new features that are implemented this year is a ranking system. Each team has its personal dashboard with things they succeed in: completed mod…
08.10.2020
ITMO Graduate Dmitry 'Finargot' Plyusnin On His Career in Streaming and Russian Voice-over of Dota 2
… a lot of money. What do you think was the secret of your success? At first, the previously not-existing Russian voice-over attracted the attention. Although we were newbies, we took it very seriously: we chose people with voices similar to the original actors and translated the text thoroughly. Then we started making animations on Source Filmmaker from …
08.10.2020
In a Nutshell: Genome Editing and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
…rs getting a Nobel Prize almost as soon as the discovery was made. Immediately after the first articles had been published, it became apparent that the method opens up a whole new range of opportunities in biology and medicine, making genome editing a tool accessible in almost any scientific laboratory. . How do you edit the genome? If it’s the CRISPR…
08.10.2020
Staff Spotlight: Daniel Nsengumuremyi, Rwanda
…versity (URFU) in Yekaterinburg. I come from an Eastern African country, Rwanda, and I got my Bachelor’s degree in applied biology there. By that time URFU had just launched a new program on food biotechnology taught in English, so they invited international students to apply for the scholarship or the grant, and I received the grant. Later, in 2016, I took a chance …
08.10.2020