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Technologies and Business: ITMO to Launch a New Track for I am a Professional Contest
…ich will help the next generation of managers to effectively build a strategy and solve tasks in organizations working in engineering. The first online round is held between November 27 and December 13, 2020. Students solve the problems remotely, all they need is a laptop and internet access. Successful participants of the first round will be invited to the …
16.10.2020
Unexplored St. Petersburg: Kanonersky Island
…ely won’t get confused by the names of the streets, as they don't exist here: all buildings have the same address – Kanonersky Island. The island’s isolation and the contrast between old and new are certainly part of the charm here. In the 1700s, the island hosted an ammunition warehouse and during the Great Northern War it was a training ground. That’s when the i…
16.10.2020
Staff Spotlight: Assel Romanova, Kazakhstan
…en Techmakers. In the near future, I plan to attend more international conferences and get to Google I/O, which went online this year due to the pandemic. It’s a venue for networking opportunities and education. Check out more international stories and also follow us on Facebook and Instagram. …
15.10.2020
Harvard Professor Stefanie Stantcheva on the Role of Surveys and Experiments in Economy
…the professor understands the chance for a person from a poor or low-income family to achieve success in society. During the study, scientists tried to trace the relationship between views on mobility with the people’s attitude towards the idea that material goods should be distributed among members of society using social mechanisms or taxation. Initially, th…
15.10.2020
ITMO Graduate Stanislav Krasnoyarov’s Journey From a Full-Time Employee to His Own Business
…e. I am fond of the idea of lifelong education. In 2013, I took courses on machine learning, statistics, and algorithms on Coursera and Stepik. Then I took a course on neural networks because I wanted to develop my company in this field – we completed one such order, but it didn't go any further. Then I got into business education, namely, I started to learn more …
14.10.2020
Scientists Explain Why Paradise State Is Hard to Reach
… is not that bad, that painting is not that good, or that the painting wasn’t created by Mary. With few details changed, this model also works when we talk about relations between three people. “You know how they say – “my friend’s friend is also my friend””, says Klavdiya Bochenina, researcher at ITMO University’s National Center for Cognitive Technologies.…
14.10.2020
TECHNOHISTORY Project Showcases New Approaches to Historical Studies
…e: Past, Present, and Future track is focused on questions related to space exploration and problems that appear in this process, such as space debris and technological races between different countries. As part of the Being Human in the Digital World track, the participants will learn more about digital revolution, digital society, digital people, and the way the…
13.10.2020
How ITMO Researchers Are Using Speech Analysis to Diagnose Dementia and Parkinson's
…rformance with a small amount of data (speech samples of the elderly). In addition to vocabulary-sourced traits, the researchers used traits extracted from pre-trained neural networks. They were also collected from large text databases containing words and the context of their use. The scientists used several versions of the models that worked in an ensemble, which h…
13.10.2020
How Coworking Spaces Help Remote Workers Stay on Track and Find New Friends and Colleagues
… and household chores, and deal with many distractions – all this has become a serious challenge for many newly remote workers. WeWork, an international flexible workplace network, and Hamilton Place Strategies, a consulting agency, conducted a joint study to find out that having experienced remote work, 45% of people noticed the decrease in their productivity and…
12.10.2020
Your Guide to Gaming in Fall-Winter of 2020
…player. Forget SW:BFII’s simple ship combat – Squadrons aims for the full space jockey experience with a steep learning curve, allowing players to control energy distribution between ship systems and heavily customize their loadouts. And notably, no microtransactions! This time, it’s truly just like the simulations – VG. Baldur's Gate III Release date: Octo…
09.10.2020