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• WUD@ITMO 2019: Design for the Future That We Want

  … For a designer, a subject field is any area of knowledge a user or a project lives in. Ilona Sarkisova recommends dividing this field into three major spheres. First comes specific user vocabulary. Second, any subjects and objects that need to operate inside the field (like the lab assistant in her example), and finally, it’s the connections between them.  When w…

  20.11.2019

• EmPaci: Russia Joins International Project on Implementing Participatory Budgeting

  …patory (initiative) budgeting According to Lev Shilov, the head of the UP urban science center at the European University at St. Petersburg, participatory budgeting is a specific process that has to do with citizens discussing and making decisions associated with allocating a part of a municipal or public budget. To put it simply, this is a process that allows cit…

  19.11.2019

• Recognizing Personality by Face and Controlling a Loader in VR: ITMO’s Pre-Accelerator + Highpark Participants at the Innovation Forum

  … developer, and the data keeps changing all the time. Making calculations inside an app that includes the developers in a certain segment allows specialists to find project-specific hardware based on a number of set criteria. You can see which of the formulas are better to use for the materials you need, then evaluate the risks of choosing the inappropriate ones for …

  15.11.2019

• Quests, Gamification and Simulators: ITMO Graduate Maksim Ivanov on New Education Formats

  …s game mechanics for tasks. Since that time, I switched to commercial orders. The first ones we collaborated with were information security companies, as I understood their specifics. Now, of course, we are working with a huge range of organizations from various fields: with schools, universities, commercial structures. Why did you decide to do a Master’s degree t…

  13.11.2019

• University College Dublin’s Professor Da-Wen Sun: Soon Enough, Your Phone Will Know More About Your Food Than You Do

  …fries and the same bag stuffed with short ones, the latter will be noticeably heavier. That’s why restaurants are interested in potatoes of a certain size and fries of a specific length. They use computer vision and high-speed cameras to quickly sort through the spuds. Can computer vision tell us anything about a product’s quality and not just its size, sha…

  13.11.2019

• Big and Small: Changes that Shape Life in St. Petersburg

  …siliy I grew up at a time when subcultures were very popular: punks, skins, goths, you name it. You could always identify them in the street, and there were places where specific groups gathered - not cause all those people knew each other but just because it was "their" place. Live communication, fun and sometimes violence - an everyday spectacle of a peculiar ro…

  12.11.2019

• Living Science: Inside ITMO’s Infochemistry Center

  …l we have potential for development in: we have managed to assemble an interdisciplinary team thanks to which we can garner this data and, in the future, use it to forecast specific processes,” notes Prof. Ekaterina Skorb. What is more, next year the Center plans to launch a new Master’s program the education process of which will be built on the basis of select…

  12.11.2019

• Speak Like a Russian: Getting Around, Part 2

  …First off, let’s see about the Russian way of writing addresses. In short, it’s not much different from how addresses are written in English (from specific to general), save for writing the zip code at the very end. Still, you can sometimes come across the old way of spelling, which is from general to specific, but that won't be hard to…

  11.11.2019

• FIA Motorsport Games Winner Klim Gavrilov: Racing Keeps Me Moving Forward

  …, so the car never let me down during the race. Racing is a team sport where much depends not only on the driver, but also on their engineers and mechanics. But speaking specifically of the driver – what qualities should one possess, in your opinion, to perform well in competitions? I think there are several. First off, a driver must have talent, a feel for the…

  11.11.2019

• Creating a University of the Future in Seven Days: Big Challenges Summit in Sochi

  …rests.  Results According to the experts and moderators, one of the main results of the summit and the project work it encompassed was not only the development of specific solutions, but also the opportunity to, operating in tight deadlines, assemble a successful team, effectively allocate associated roles and tasks, and obtain valuable experience of workin…

  11.11.2019