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Cities on the Moon, Villages on Mars: What's Stopping Us?
Campbell’s Law: Why Smart Technologies Don’t Always Make Life Better
…to which the functioning of an institute was being evaluated unavoidably distorted both the indicators and processes in question. Even though more than 40 years went by and management tools were mostly digitalized and algorithmized, Campbell’s law still works, disregarding all the efforts to overcome it. Short-termism and working to improve the numbers …
23.07.2020
How Course Assessment Influences the Quality of Education
…dents with the best possible education. What is more valuable for improvement than feedback from students who take these courses? That’s exactly why the Center for Educational Management and Quality Assurance arranges surveys for each discipline on a regular basis: in the beginning and at the end of a semester. In our emails about the assessment, we always emphasi…
22.07.2020
This Mostly Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Mental Health
…r. Elizabeth Slator provides a broad overview of the fundamental concepts, principles, and practices of mindfulness to help you enhance your attention, resilience, and emotion management. …
22.07.2020
At-Home Lab Experiments: A Look at the Summer SCAMT Workshop Week 2020
…-language school in the summer and the Russian-language one in the winter. The fifth in a row, this school was held in very unusual circumstances. Nevertheless, the organizers managed to overcome the limitations imposed by the online format, preserving the school’s motto of “less lectures, more practice” – in a very non-trivial way. All the participants were sent spe…
22.07.2020
Mission Inboxible: How to Set Up a Successful Marketing Mailout
…ng our dream client. What we need is a realistic understanding of consumers’ interests, tastes, habits, preferences, purchasing power – all this can be found out by talking to managers and salespeople, who are in direct contact with clients. Don’t beat around the bush The average time for viewing an email is about 10 seconds. In this short period of…
21.07.2020
A Great Opportunity to Practice Public Speaking: SPIE Photonics Europe Participant on the Advantages of Online Scientific Conferences
…hem by turning them into hybrid nanostructures. What was important for us specifically was to study exactly how chlorin e6’s characteristics change in cancer cells – and we managed to register the spectra of molecules in cells and gage how the optical properties of molecules change in affected cells. The results were submitted to the SPIE conference in the Spectro…
20.07.2020
ITMO University Scientists Recognized With Two Awards at Prestigious Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO 2020
…y the history generated. Secondly, we conducted experiments on the data for which evolutionary histories had already been built in existing papers using the old method. And we managed to show that practically in every case it was possible to find something better than what had been found. We ran 47 different experiments and it was only in one of them that we failed t…
20.07.2020
ITMO University and VK Carry Out Research in the Field of Machine Learning and User Metrics
…g: test one version of a new feature on one group of users, test another version on another group, and don’t test it altogether on the third group,” explains Lidia Perovskaya, manager for educational projects at VK. “We have to monitor whether these users’ behavior really changes based on the experiment. This tracks well with what has been done as part of the researc…
17.07.2020
Uniting the Expert Community and Best Practices: Results of the ITMO.Distant Project
…cademic staff in the distance teaching conditions, as well as to stimulate the exchange of best practices. “In the two months of teaching in the remote format, lecturers managed to adapt and master all the necessary tools. At the current stage, there is a focus on rethinking the accumulated experience, comparing it to the experience of colleagues and searching …
14.07.2020