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• Discover Yamal Peninsula: Wise Up and Learn to Welcome Change

  …) left by the storm. Generally after years spent in tundra, they learn to navigate among the seemingly indistinguishable hills and glades in the snow. Thus, they exist in a certain symbiosis, one might say, not only with their reindeer, but with nature as a whole.  A word on the Nenets yurts or чумы (tchumy) that they carry around with them to assemble during …

  19.10.2020

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Kanonersky Island

  …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 island got the name Kanoner…

  16.10.2020

• ITMO Researchers Win Grant for Development of Smart Glasses Components

  …Today, many high tech companies are developing wearable VR displays of various types for purposes of entertainment and education. Still, having to project the image onto a display limits a user’s field of view. A growing number of manufacturers are experimenting with the creation of smart glasses that would augment their user’s reality with various data: from medical…

  15.10.2020

• Staff Spotlight: Assel Romanova, Kazakhstan

  …o know the Russians better, the barrier gets removed. The wind blowing from everywhere also came as a surprise. There was nothing like this in Almaty, a city surrounded by mountains. But the air of St. Petersburg is fresh and this is undoubtedly an advantage. In general, it took me a year to adapt and overcome my homesickness before I realized I enjoy being here a lo…

  15.10.2020

• Harvard Professor Stefanie Stantcheva on the Role of Surveys and Experiments in Economy

  …analyzing tax policy. It was about three different factors: distributional, efficiency, and economist's perspectives. “The first is about who wins and who loses from a certain policy, the second estimates the economic costs of its implementation, and the third combines the first two perspectives and focuses on the need to find a balance between these two forces,…

  15.10.2020

• ITMO Graduate Stanislav Krasnoyarov’s Journey From a Full-Time Employee to His Own Business

  …tups that already have revenue because we are not only good at development but also a little at product management. That is, we do not just create systems, but also improve certain business indicators – and this is clearly seen in specific numbers such as increasing employee productivity, revenue, etc. Let’s say there is a large accounting company that employs a t…

  14.10.2020

• Scientists Explain Why Paradise State Is Hard to Reach

  …s. The “enemy of my enemy is my friend” expression is of the same kind. It’s also a balanced structure with three nodes and plus – minus – minus relations. These structures contain internally logical relations, so they are considered balanced.” However, three-node relations can also be unbalanced. For example, “the enemy of my enemy is my enemy” or “my frien…

  14.10.2020

• TECHNOHISTORY Project Showcases New Approaches to Historical Studies

  …a Martynova from the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations and the Center of Social and Humanities Knowledge and Laura Rodriguez, a bioartist. The course will contain theoretical lectures and two workshops, during which participants will create their own art installations. This track will be launched on October 16. “We will dedicate a special b…

  13.10.2020

• How ITMO Researchers Are Using Speech Analysis to Diagnose Dementia and Parkinson's

  …ecorded utterances and acoustic analysis uses audio files and linguistic analysis, namely texts. Each speech and vocal unit (tone, timbre, word, and so on) corresponds to a certain marker that reflects the speaker's attitude towards the content of their utterance. In speech analysis, it is usually one of six categories of emotional state: anger, sadness, disgust, hap…

  13.10.2020

• How Coworking Spaces Help Remote Workers Stay on Track and Find New Friends and Colleagues

  …a Polyana, we bring together representatives of various fields, mainly from IT – we are like a meeting venue for them. We regularly organize events – both educational and entertainment – so that residents can communicate in a relaxed atmosphere, make friends, hold negotiations, and even create some kind of joint projects or businesses. We already have a whole lot of …

  12.10.2020