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• Project by ITMO Robotics Team Named Best at Baltic Science and Engineering Competition

  …icipants’ task here is to defend their invention and, in an open dialog with the judges, prove that it does pertain to scientific discovery, offers new methods of solving a specific problem, and has practical significance. In this way, contestants learn to build their scientific and business career. Generating consequential buzz among the regular public, BSEC is a…

  15.02.2019

• The Neuroscience of Love

  …responsible for forming an attachment to another mouse. When a male mouse meets and “falls in love” with a female, its D2 receptors activate and he becomes attached to that specific female. If we were to block those receptors, the male would start attacking females, and if we activated them, he’d fall for the first female mouse he meets. After an attachment has been …

  14.02.2019

• Green Building: Putting Sustainable Development Into Practice

  …pond, drawing on BREEAM as its foundation. BREEAM The British standard gained a better traction in Russia. So much so that two years ago, it was adapted to suit local specifics, with the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering and Russian Green Building Council in charge of its russification and maintenance. This building assessment system applies to all t…

  13.02.2019

• Just Ask: How Does New Cancer Consultation Service Work

• 5 Incredible Facts You Didn’t Know About Music

  …guish different pitches. However, it was unknown whether music improves general cognitive ability, leading to better language proficiency, or if the effect of music is more specific to language processing. A new study by MIT researchers has demonstrated that piano lessons have a very specific effect on kindergartners’ ability to dist…

  08.02.2019

• Breathing-Checker Belt and Smart Trousers: ITMO Students Explore Health Devices at Tallinn University Winter School

  …gn. They attended a range of lectures on design processes, examined real-world cases and experimented with User Story, which is a short, natural language description of the specific functions a software system should perform for a user. The lectures also covered the health of the musculoskeletal system, which is where the main problems come from. Taking place …

  08.02.2019

• 10 ITMO University Lecturers Will Intern at University of York in 2019

  …nts for independent study. For example, I have a book on project management, which is available in ITMO University’s library. I give my students a task of reading through a specific topic as part of their homework, so that we could discuss it in class and solve different cases. This way, there’s no need for spending the entire class on theory. In the next semester, I…

  07.02.2019

• Switching to Kotlin: Books, Courses, and Tips

  …e’s development team: the full library can be found here. Newcomers can choose from a variety of materials: from online courses and books to blogs with in-depth analysis of specific problems. Books Kotlin in Action By: Dmitry Jemerov and Svetlana Isakova As Dmitry Jemerov explains, the book is intended for programmers experienced in Java and focuses o…

  07.02.2019

• DigiRockStars Venture Fund Rep Steven Balliano: Don’t Go The Traditional Way

  … The Lean Startup method is the opposite to beaten track that is the traditional one. You start off in the same way: you come up with an idea, but before building something specific, you attempt to conduct an experiment. Its aim is to establish whether there is someone out there struggling with that very problem you want to solve, and whether that someone will want t…

  05.02.2019

• Different Volunteering, Eco Camps and Fresh Perspective on Things: Belgian Gloria Sagaradze on Interning at ITMO

  … in Georgia, Ukraine, Lebanon, so I see no big difference in people living the other side of the border. That’s why I wasn’t afraid to come here. How did you decide on a specific place to intern at? From the Russian side my internship was coordinated by a company ProfIntern; it helps young international specialists, graduates and students obtain work experience…

  05.02.2019