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• Seven Sins of Our Memory or Why We Forget Things

  … that he had just had an operation, and several times a day he became acquainted once again with his attending physician and medical staff. Further tests showed that H.M. retained the ability to acquire new motor skills. So, he was taught to draw a complex figure through a reflection in a mirror, and with each attempt, he got better and better. And it amazed him b…

  07.01.2021

• Koliada: Russian Trick-or-Treating?

  …ly carol these days, especially in big cities. It’s definitely not a pop-culture activity like trick-or-treating in the US – it’s more of a dying tradition that is hard to maintain in urban conditions. However, you can still witness it in Russian villages. These days it’s mostly kids who do this – for fun and to obtain some sweets. H…

  07.01.2021

• Cyber-Corona: How Businesses Managed the Transition to Working From Home

  …showed that in the beginning of the self-isolation period, the number of cyberattacks grew: a large number of them had to do with newsletters and websites that pretended to contain essential information on the virus, or disguised themselves as popular services like Netflix. Transition issues Ivan Novikov, the co-founder and and CEO of Wallarm, spoke about t…

  06.01.2021

• Winter Break at Home: Staying Fit, Sane, and Entertained

  …g mindfulness. You can also check out our own quick guide to staying positive or the ITMO.NEWS editorial team’s top ways to boost their moods during the winter season. Entertainment But spending your winter break at home isn’t all about working out, meditating, and self-improvement. It’s also about simply having a good time! Besides binging on shows and honing …

  05.01.2021

• Picture of the Week: Mobile Manipulator Robot KUKA youBot

  …pment. Initially, the robot could only move from point A to point B. Then, the laboratory staff developed a trajectory planning program to allow it to move in space at a certain speed. But most importantly, KUKA is the first robot at the lab that uses an algorithm for sensorless force control: it measures its interactions with its environment through indirect indi…

  04.01.2021

• 5 Holiday Movies and Series to Binge On

• ITMO Volunteer Center Wins Ministry of Higher Education’s National Competition

  … past few years to developing our volunteer center and introducing as many volunteer initiatives as possible into the curriculum. We value this success very much, and it is certainly this year’s best gift to ITMO’s volunteer community,” she says. According to Andrey Zlenko, head of the Student Initiatives Support Department, this success is chiefly a sign th…

  31.12.2020

• ITMO Technopark in 2020: Tech Business, New Clubs, and International Cooperation

  … co-organizer of the Blockchain.Hack hackathon, organized by ITMO, Gazprom Neft, and Innopolis University.  In the next six months, a large-scale international school on sustainable energy will be held at the recently opened XLab Technopark, a new platform under the aegis of ITMO Technopark that allows students to develop their entrepreneurial skills and work on p…

  31.12.2020

• Greening for Sustainable Development: Highlights from Lectures on Urban Studies

  …dents of the Master's programs Urban Studies and Urban Planning and Design. The events series was organized by associate professor Irina Shmeleva, head of the Laboratory of Sustainable Urban Development. The first day of the lectures was entirely devoted to the topic of urban greening, its role in the ecological and economic state of the metropolis, as well as its…

  30.12.2020

• Scientists from ITMO Discover a New Way to Create Reconfigurable Topological States of Light

  …At the same time, the properties of localized states can be easily transformed if particles of the structure are flipped over. The obtained results make a step towards topologically protected resonators with a frequency resilient to defects and imperfections of the structure. The research was conducted with the support of the Russian Science Foundation. The article i…

  30.12.2020