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Lighting Design Expert on Light in Culture
… know what’s what, you need to at the very least be able comprehend information in English, and better be able to communicate in this language with ease. The third thing is networking. Developing your network of contacts proves very useful. I aim to share my knowledge, and it pays back. I do many presentations, organize events that h…
13.04.2021
Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: Exploring the Deep Sea
…Under the sea In 2017, it was claimed that only a fraction of the deep ocean’s area has been explored, which makes it one of the least investigated biomes on the planet. This fact is particularly startling when we think how much we know about outer space – and then consider the similarities between expeditions beyond the Earth’s orbit and into the deepest corners …
13.04.2021
ITMO Students Win Moscow Travel Hack for Second Year in Row
… it again, especially since it was the first offline hackathon after the pandemic outbreak,” says Alexander Blashenkov, a team member and a student of the Programming and Internet Technologies program. “Unlike last year, we didn’t have any privileges and had to go through a selection, just like everyone else. Thus, we filled out an application, indicated our place of…
13.04.2021
Picture of the Week: Lithium Niobate Crystal
Top Places To Learn About Space in St. Petersburg
…St. Petersburg Planetarium & Planetarium No.1 Planetariums are the primary choice when it comes to learning about space. There are two major ones in St. Petersburg and they are equally deserving of your attention! The first one – St. Petersburg Planetarium – is located…
12.04.2021
The New Things We’re Trying This Spring
… This spring, I feel the need for changes, so, among other things, I’m trying to renovate my room. As it turns out, it’s not that hard and even quite fun. Thanks to the internet, you can check out most things online and then come to the store to buy them straight away without the need to walk around the shelves for hours. I also got rid of many old things. Web serv…
09.04.2021
ITMO PhD Student Ksenia Balabaeva Wins Science Slam Big Data
…or example, an algorithm based on the Damerau–Levenshtein distance. This method estimates the number of changes needed for the correct spelling of a word. It requires a neural network that will analyze the meaning of words and replace them correctly. The hint lies in the context – we can analyze the words used together with a specific word, for instance, “pancreas.” …
08.04.2021
ITMO Hosts EduLeaders Best Educational Projects Contest Final
…tch the parts that interest them the most. The videos are available not only to ITMO students (who can rewatch them as many times as they like), but also to anyone on the internet. In the future, the author of the project is planning to upload new videos – this time not two-hour long broadcasts, but concise learning modules. Students rated the course highly favou…
05.04.2021
From Screen to Life: A Movie Guide to St. Petersburg
…ves can hardly imagine, but some 15 years ago (still the 21st century!) people couldn’t reach each other so easily, as cell phones were as multifunctional as bricks and social networks were virtually nonexistent. Luckily for us, this is now history, but phone trouble became the basis for one of the most romantic movies filmed in St. Petersburg: Piter FM. Masha is …
02.04.2021
ITMO Associate Professor Alexander Kuznetsov on How Criminals Fool Voice Recognition to Steal Money
… If we have a quality record, then it won’t be hard to synthesize a new audio track, even with a completely different text. Nowadays, synthesis systems based on deep neural networks are especially widespread. Anyone already can find them online, and, if necessary, any competent Python programmer can retrain these networks or write a …
02.04.2021