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• Friday Experiment: Attempting to Write Every Day

  …hat may lead you to procrastinating about it or even abandoning the whole idea. And just like with any creative endeavor, when writing something you (or is it just me?) always want it to be perfect, especially when it’s a public thing – this perfection is expressed both in finding the right words to express an idea and making these words entertaining to read. Then, a…

  20.11.2020

• Top Nine Questions About Genome Decoding

  … research, scientists work with a much larger amount of DNA – ideally, with all of it. That’s called whole-genome research. However, fragments of the genome will suffice if we want to figure out someone’s genetic history or find out whether two people are related. It’s possible thanks to mathematics and the fact that our genome contains fragments that are variable an…

  20.11.2020

• How the Stones of Ancestors Exhibition Changes Our Perception of Archaeology

  …t the way our curators try to communicate with their audience and create an atmosphere by using lighting and music. It’s more of a demonstration of the fact that if you really want to, you can create a cultural project without funding and support of major cultural institutions. The clever use of materials proves that the exhibition could be even more impressive if it…

  19.11.2020

• ITMO Technopark Resident Creates a Sophisticated Distance Learning System

  …ght built into the phone stand. Everything written on this piece of paper automatically appears on the online board that all users can see and interact with. The developers wanted their product to be affordable for most people and that’s why the stand will cost around 1,000 rubles. Initially, it was intended only for online tutors, but the pandemic and school clos…

  19.11.2020

• Student Spotlight: Uğur Bayar, Turkey

  … tell us about your background? What did you do before coming to Russia? Before coming here, I was studying medicine in Macedonia, but I felt that this was not the career I wanted to pursue and if I continued, I would be unhappy – so I dropped out of the university later on. Have you decided to study online or offline? I decided to study in-person but I came…

  19.11.2020

• ITMO University Holds Sixth International UX Conference WUD@ITMO

  …Artem Smolin, Dmitriy Satin, and Alexander Volosyuk. Artem Smolin pondered on AI and the associated issues as portrayed in science fiction – from Gianni Rodari’s The Robot Who Wanted to Sleep to the iconic Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Both of these works were written in the late 1960s, but 50 years on we still haven’t created a sufficiently…

  18.11.2020

• Results of ITMO University’s First Online Course on Climate and Journalism

  …sor at ITMO University, vice president of the European Federation for Science Journalism, and the first Russian fellow of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT. They wanted to demonstrate climate change as it is seen by scientists and science communicators. “We already received some feedback from our students and the idea of a climate change-centric co…

  18.11.2020

• ITMO University’s Anatomy of Movement Course Will Help Improve Your Health

  …to provide students with reliable information on the basic actions required to maintain a healthy body. The course may also be of interest to those who aren’t into dancing but want to learn more about their bodies and useful exercises. “It’s an introductory anatomy course. It turned out to be quite comprehensive even though anatomy of movement is a field that is…

  17.11.2020

• Art.ITMO.Residency Hosts Hidden in the Woods Exhibition

  …rt & Medium program at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, to collaborate with the organizers on the upcoming annual project. “We have many types of data about trees and we want to translate it into human-readable words and images and interpret them in different ways. The technologies help us reveal something that was previously hidden,” comments Natalia. “We real…

  17.11.2020

• Inside the New Cafeteria on Kronverksky: Meals, Play Area, and Coworking Space

  …ver 450 new positions on the menu. Eat fast... There are three areas with different menus and service formats. For those students or employees who are in a hurry and want to have a quick bite, there are vending machines at the cafeteria’s entrance where they can find a meal to any taste, pay for it in cash or by card, and microwave it on the spot. “The…

  16.11.2020