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Sometimes It’s Important Just to Talk: How Volunteers of #WeAreTogether Initiative Help the Elderly During Self-Isolation
…e also helped by other volunteers – this is how the kindness boomerang works. Participating in the initiative gives me positive emotions, as well as an opportunity to meet new people. Every drive for me is special. Once I drove to a veteran who asked me to just sit with him and talk. This was on May 9, and he told me a couple of stories from the war. This was the…
03.06.2020
This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: More Online Opportunities
…r a particular skill – and now we can take all of those chances back, learning from the greatest while we’re at it. Inspired by one of the recent publications here on ITMO.NEWS, I am looking to take Statistics with R offered by Duke University as this seems to be a skill highly relevant to anyone today. On a similar note, Coursera themselves mention their Guided …
03.06.2020
AR Technologies at Home: FASTEP Startup Team on Easy-to-Understand Manuals for Household Appliances
ITMO Researchers Develop Smart Energy System To Help Ease Electrical Grid Load
…nsumption to some extent by controlling the output between the peak and minimum loads.” It is this task, the task of distribution and management of energy flows, that the new generation hybrid energy systems are to solve on a new level, with the help of alternative power sources and energy storage units. The potential of suc…
02.06.2020
Lumen in the Land of Nanite: What the Unreal Engine 5 Demo Tells Us About the Future of Video Game Graphics
…t it took him "over a decade of personal research [and more than] three years of full time work" to deliver such a solution. However, the core concept of the technology is not new. It goes back to 1980 and the REYES (Render Everything You Ever Saw) technique developed by Lucasfilm’s Graphics Group, the precursor of today’s Pixar. What makes Nanite unique is its imple…
02.06.2020
ITMO Named Among Top-5 Universities in Science Popularization
…. “These changes in methodology can be explained by an increase in the work standards of the 5-100 universities’ press services. If before, every publication of a science newsitem on a website got 1 point, now it's awarded for continuous work with scientific publications, which means having at least 12 publications a year. The same goes for the indicator for the…
02.06.2020
Love Diversity (and Exploring!) Like a Russian
For the Benefit of the Environment: ITMO Specialists Develop Biodegradable Food Packaging and Nutritious Plant-Based Food
…How is your project different? We propose alternative raw materials. In our developments, we focus on naturalness, biodegradability and functionality. Our goal is to obtain new coatings for paper and cardboard packaging, containers and packaging for fast food, dairy products, breadstuffs, salads, soups, drinks and so on. How do you see these developments b…
01.06.2020
ITMO Master’s Student Creates Software to Settle Controversial Moments in Hockey
…April 2020, but it had to be postponed because of the pandemic. A team of developers is currently working to improve the functionality and usability of Meteora-Referee – a new timeline was introduced that allows quick transitions along the recorded material to jump right to the specific episode. The interface also now boasts separate windows with data from the re…
01.06.2020
“Life in Science” Online Soft Skills Course Helps You Succeed in Science