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• International Journalists on Russian Science and Future of the Science Communication Community

  …al applications. A really good approach for a journalist is to look for reliable information and draw upon reliable sources and high-quality research. Still, writing a good story based on such information is also very important, as communicating just the facts is not enough for the audience. This is the reason why people are prone to believe and spread fake news: …

  09.07.2019

• ITMO University Held Russia’s First ICPC Alum Reunion

  …ds on a number of factors, including a number of teams participating in the qualification round in that region, the results demonstrated by the region’s participants for the history of ICPC and others.  In recent years, it was the teams from Russia that tended to win the prestigious contest. From 2012 to 2017, the champion’s cup was being claimed by two St. Pe…

  09.07.2019

• Graduation Party with a View: Fourth ITMO.Live Festival Celebrated at Peter and Paul Fortress

  …ur modern world, and know that you’ll always find support at ITMO University whatever happens in the future,” said the rector.  For the first time in the festival’s history, this year’s awarding of diplomas included a special ceremony by ITMO University’s endowment fund, during which Konstantin Astankov, deputy director of the Scientific Business Partnership…

  08.07.2019

• Song of the Month: June 2019

  …e feel sympathy for every lonely person on the planet and often remind my friends of how important and loved they are. Far Out Feeling by SUSTO This melancholic story of our ridiculous everyday life performed by an American indie rock band never fails to amaze me with its simplicity and incredible pacifying effect (as well as spectacular instrumental a…

  05.07.2019

• ITMO University Specialists Develop AR Solution for the Second European Games in Minsk

  …e them an opportunity to influence what is happening in the show.” Concept of the ceremonies The opening ceremony of the 2019 European Games was dedicated to the history of Belarus, its traditions and prominent figures. For example, the part when the country’s flag was carried out to the stadium was enhanced with an AR flock of storks. Two of the birds, w…

  05.07.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: July 6-7

  …burg Memorial Museum Tickets from 140 to 180 rubles Travel to Russia’s past to find out how adults and kids alike passed their summers throughout the country’s modern history, with an exhibition at the Raznochinny Petersburg Memorial Museum. The sometimes sacred national institutions of dachas and pioneer summer camps will take the center stage, but the displa…

  03.07.2019

• Art & Science Students Present Projects for Upcoming Creative Center in Gatchina

  … It’s important to make this a unique project, which is why I propose using the site to launch an Art & Science center that is one-of-a-kind for Russia. The plant has a rich history: before it was a production facility, it was a boarding school for orphans. Its educational legacy is relevant to this project’s idea,” explains Svetlana Sidorova. Folk high schools …

  03.07.2019

• Third Forum of Science Communicators: Responsibility and Challenges in Science Journalism

  …ysis. It is the data we published that helped free an innocent person from prison. It wasn’t published in a scientific journal, but science still played a central role in this story. Our main message is, we have to do more to approach science from the journalistic point of view, and journalism from the scientific one,” shared the journalist.  Collaborative and d…

  02.07.2019

• Data Science for Culture, Toxicity, and New Perception of Time: Researchers of New Media Discuss Trends in Digital World

  …more and more representatives of different fields (sociology, psychology, computer science and others) began to understand that new methods for studying society, culture and history were emerging, methods that make use of Big Data and Data Science, which didn't even have a name at that point. I was among those pioneers, which is why I organized my laboratory. In 2001…

  28.06.2019

• IMS, DTGS and EVA: Key Events of the Information Society and Technology Week

  …ablished field, and this year we have digital humanities in science studies: we organized a pilot seminar in collaboration with the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Science. The seminar wasn’t very extensive, but we plan to bring this subject field of the conference to an international level, so tha…

  27.06.2019